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rationality

[rash-uh-nal-i-tee] / ˌræʃ əˈnæl ɪ ti /




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According to Maria Almudena Claassen, a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Adaptive Rationality at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, this idea creates a misleading impression.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

Stella's criticism of the FIA was shared by Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff, who said of the governing body: "Rationality needs to win and for me it doesn't look like this at the moment."

From BBC • Dec. 2, 2024

Rationality is often flipped on its head, where it seems like the least rational people are operating under a guise of rationality.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2021

But it’s apparently been downhill for him intellectually ever since, if this excerpt from a New York Times review of his new book Rationality is any indication:

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2021

Rationality is more and more integrated in the technology; thus it is rationalized away from the process of individual self-constitution.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai




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