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In satire, absurdity is the only rationality.
And that vague sense that art is worth something seems to be the only rationality the underworld art market has.
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Sure, you can do technical stuff that is creative, like designing a website, but the coding uses only rationality and logic, which you don't want when you're doing something artistic.
If only rationality were enough to settle the matter.
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Much discussion of instrumental rationality has taken place in the context of a debate about whether instrumental rationality is the only kind of practical rationality or, alternatively, there are other requirements of practical rationality as well, such as requirements of prudence and morality.
Some philosophers have argued that an instrumental analogue of this paradox shows there to be something special about instrumental rationality, and perhaps even provides support for some version of the thesis that instrumental rationality is the only kind of practical rationality.
It is sometimes claimed that instrumental rationality is the only kind of practical rationality.
The thesis that instrumental rationality is the only kind of practical rationality is often taken to be a "Humean" thesis, though, as we've seen (§4.1), there are several ways in which this thesis could be understood.
In this section, we'll consider some possible understandings of the thesis that instrumental rationality is the only kind of practical rationality (§4.1), and whether some version of this thesis is given any support by an instrumental analogue of Lewis Carroll's famous paradox concerning modus ponens (§4.2).
This may explain why the Desire-Based Theory is often simply identified with "instrumental rationality," and why the claim that "the only kind of practical rationality is instrumental rationality" is sometimes just meant as an assertion of the Desire-Based Theory.
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