Lexicon of Arguments

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I 275 f
Rorty: "rationality" means the adaptation of means to purposes here. The difference to hormonal activity is that these can only be described with a meta-linguistic vocabulary. The understanding of such processes is more about tricks than about capturing universality.
>Meta language, >Object language, >Generality.
This has little to do with rationality. It does not allow us to understand not what it means to be a rational researcher.
"Rational", just as little as "true" (or "sincere") is not a candidate for a term which would be better understood having knowledge about the functioning of the mental apparatus.
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III 84f
Irrational/Rorty: the distinction between rational and irrational is of little use.
>Thinking, >World/thinking, >Knowledge, >Mind, >Spirit, >Purposes, >Means/purpose-rationality, >Rationality/Papineau.

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