0 the quality of being based on clear thought and reason, or of making decisions based on clear thought and reason:
1 the existence of reasons or intentions for a particular set of thoughts or actions; reason:
She writes about replacing faith with pure scientific rationality.
"You're looking for rationality and logic in a system that does not provide that," he said.
Her job is to assess the economic rationality of the government's decision.
In any case, there is a touch of arrogance to the view that a visiting scholar sees ' rationality ' where no one else sees it.
Is rationality really "bounded" by information processing constraints?
Heuristics should rather be tested against the other forms of applied rationality, not against utopian scientific models.
We have suggested that, for our eighteenth-century writers, the concept of rationality was less narrowly defined, and could encompass dispositions as well as actions.
Our results confirm that value rationality dominates in the decision-making about unfamiliar and constraining instruments.
