The claim developed here is that the engine driving linguistic code choices is rationality, a mechanism universally available to humans.
Some aspects of logic and norms of rationality are clearly not conventional. 26.
Explaining the role of norms and rationality in codeswitching.
But it replaced democracy with objectivity, promising that assessments of rationality would be based on universal laws rather than individual opinion.
In the bearing rein debate, the emphasis on utility, precision, rationality, and the verity of scientific understanding functioned rhetorically as a distancing device.
Behaviour cannot be explained easily by instrumental rationality alone; policy signals are relevant.
In essence, the task is to assess the rationality, justification and general epistemic status of religion.
The neo-utilitarian construal of rationality extends only to instrumental or means+ends rationality.
