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Those definitions of rationality are useful _because_ they are narrow. If you redefine "rational" to mean "how the brain operates", you might be able to stop us
by edmccard 14y ago
Those definitions of rationality are useful _because_ they are narrow. If you redefine "rational" to mean "how the brain operates", you might be able to stop using the word "irrational", but...all the phenomena that previously fell into the "irrational" category will still exist, and people will still want to discuss them, so you might as well just use the same word for them as everyone else does.
- oh_sigh 14y agoThe term "rational" is already well defined. I was claiming that the OPs understanding of the meaning of rationality was limited, not that the term rationality was narrow. There are many other words and phrases available for us to talk about this concept that are well understood and do not need to be redefined.