rationality

emotion

thinking

foreign language

trivia

brain

irrationality

is, in excess, like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give... no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane.

To go out of your mind once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. And if you stay in your mind all of the time, you are over rational, in other words you are like a very rigid bridge which because it has no give... no craziness in it, is going to be blown down by the first hurricane. Alan Watts

is influenced by the confidence one can have in the outcome of the conversation.

Rationality, for Habermas, is influenced by the confidence one can have in the outcome of the conversation and is approached by working toward these two communicative ideals'

is not a problem. There is behind it no unknown that we have to determine deductively or prove inductively on the basis of it.

Rationality is not a problem. There is behind it no unknown that we have to determine deductively or prove inductively on the basis of it. We are present in each instant at this prodigy of the connection of experiences, and no one knows better than we do how it is made, since we are this knot of relations.

is not a problem. There is behind it no unknown that we have to determine deductively or prove inductively on the basis of it. We are present at each moment, and no one knows better than we do how it is made, since we are this knot of relations.

Rationality is not a problem. There is behind it no unknown that we have to determine deductively or prove inductively on the basis of it. We are present in each instant at this prodigy of the connection of experiences, and no one knows better than we do how it is made, since we are this knot of relations. (Merleau-Ponty 'what is phenomenology' : 67)

is not so much concerned iwth the possession of knowledge, but with how speaking and acting subjects acquire and use knowledge.

For Habermas, rationality consist not so much in the possession of knowledge and thus primarily concerned with the consistency and content of one's beliefs, but rather in 'how speaking and acting subjects acquire and use knowledge' (Habermas, 1984, 11). (net)

is not the expansion of one and the same principle assuming different shapes, but rather, through the shapeless repetition of one and the same formula, only externally applied to diverse materials, thereby obtaining merely a boring show of diversity.

But a closer inspection shows that this expansion has not come about through one and the same principle having spontaneously assumed different shapes, but rather through the shapeless repetition of one and the same formula, only externally applied to diverse materials, thereby obtaining merely a boring show ofdiversity. (Hegel 'phenomenology' 8)

is precisely proportioned to the experiences in which it is disclosed. It work in the following way: Perspectives intersect, perceptions confirm each other, a sense appears.

Rationality is precisely proportioned to the experiences in which it is disclosed. There is rationality, that is: perspectives intersect, perceptions confirm each other, a sense appears. (Merleau-Ponty 'what is phenomenology' : 67)

is purely instrumental, a calculating scout and spy which ranges abroad, and finds the way to achieve our haphazard and subjective ends.

Rationality is purely instrumental. It can add and subtract, and compare sums one to another, and thereby endows us with the capacity to formulate the best means to whatever ends we might happen to have. (internet encyclopedia social contract). . . . . . . 'Their reason does not, given the subjective nature of value, evaluate their given ends, rather it merely acts as 'Scouts, and Spies, to range abroad, and find the way to the things Desired' (hobbes: leviathan 139).

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