Rationality as an Absolute Concept

Philosophy 66 (258):473 - 486 (1991)
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My thesis is that ‘rational’ is an absolute concept like ‘flat’ and ‘clean’. Absolute concepts are best defined as absences. In the case of flatness, the absence of bumps, curves, and irregularities. In the case of cleanliness, the absence of dirt. Rationality, then, is the absence of irrationalities such as bias, circularity, dogmatism, and inconsistency.

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Roy Sorensen
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A Theory of Group Rationality.Husain Sarkar - 1982 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 13 (1):55.

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