Cilliers [ 23] nuances the ideal by pointing at the notion of power: "The argument from complexity claims that a single story, or in the words of Lyotard, a 'coherent meta-narrative' cannot describe any social system fully…The reason why a certain description is acceptable has to do less with rationality and more with power.
Some may be waiting for a third choice to emerge, an honorable if improbable idea, but too many seem hobbled by a disdain rooted less in rationality than in pure habit to see the reality of the circumstance.
Perhaps there isn't any choice more personal or less subject to rationality or the judgment of others.
It satirizes the utopian fantasies of mid-20th-century design and suggests, with all the lactating mammary imagery, that the impulse to create environments of holistic harmony may be driven less by formalist rationality than by infantile yearning for the ideally nurturing mother.
As mentioned in section 3.6, the impulse toward suicide is often sporadic, ambivalent, and influenced by mental illnesses such as depression, all indicators that suicide may be undertaken with less than full rationality.
Their leading lights promise a "less political" parliament favouring "rationality"—that is, a firmer adherence to Mr Khamenei's wishes over the "tension-raising" of the previous lot.The election's other casualties are parliament, which has been emasculated, and the presidency.
The social embedding of technological solutions is less dependent on their rationality, but on their social acceptability.
It should be noted, however, that even granting that the neo-historicist Bayesian apparatus successfully models matters of individual rationality, much less has been said regarding its prospects for explaining the social elements of science that play such a central role in traditional historicist proposals especially that of Kuhn.
The distinction between theories of full rationality and less-than-full rationality is central to the project of idealization, though, as will emerge, full rationality is elusive.
This recalls Holm's (2003) observation about the coexistence of multiple rationalities shaping ordinary eating practices, and suggests less targeted and (technically) rational purposes than those rehearsed by Niva's (2007) Finnish respondents.
