But there are cases where rationality seems to permit (or perhaps even require) failures of transitivity and failures of completeness.
In other cases, economic rationality might simply be embodied in behavioral dispositions built by natural, cultural or market selection.
As the reputed Republican Hopeless for the 2016 presidential election, Carson takes every opportunity to congratulate himself on his ability to speak his mind at any cost -- the cost in this case being the reinforcement of an utterly nonsensical and dangerous notion, but the cost in all cases being rationality and someone else's well-being.
We also analyze the case when rationality is at least mutual knowledge.
It presents the best analysis of cognitive errors in the scientific literature and makes a compelling case for measuring rationality independently of intelligence.
"All of the evidence in this case supports the rationality, the common sense, of his belief that this adventure, this commitment of capital, would be worth it when the rebuild was complete".
From there, without defending the indefensible, they make their case for the rationality of the budget process by carefully recounting and explaining the events, from Jimmy Carter's struggles with an increasingly uncontrollable economy, through the budget and tax cuts of Reagan's first year, to the efforts in Washington to cope with the aftermath of huge deficits.
Whereas Richard Swinburne has tried to make a case for the rationality of Christian revelation, this article argues for the rationality of early Christian discourse.
By advancing an intricate, comprehensive picture of how beliefs can be warranted when they function as God designed them, he has provided what some believe to be a combined metaphysical and epistemic case for the rationality of religious convictions (see Beilby (ed).
But Anouilh makes a case for the rationality of Creon's political pragmatism.
