In this example 1, most people may behave as the patient agent B. It is to be noted that both impulsive agent A and patient agent B may be rational, because, in this example 1 alone, there is no inconsistency even in impulsive agent A's behavior.
Similarly, Carnap (1952) would maintain that both scientists might be rational because rationality is relative to an inductive method or confirmation function, and the two scientists might be employing different inductive methods or confirmation functions.
Anti-inductivists could proclaim their practices rational because they are constitutive of their conception of rationality.
Defenders of the rationality of marriage have replied that marital obligations are rational because they help agents to secure their long-term interests in the face of passing desires (Landau 2004).
Here, we see that the history of science is rational because it meets our (proto) criteria for progress and rationality.
Still, moving to a suburb with high test scores is rational, because peers are important.
It's rational, because the costs of being wrong are just too high.
"Voters are becoming more rational because of the crisis" says Mr Krastev.But how does Poland fit into that picture?
Their fear is entirely rational, because Donald Trump has talked openly about doing terrible things to them".
On the other hand, the general will is not purely rational because it emerges out of an attachment and even love for one's political community.
That was rational because though the UK was not the world's largest economy – it was number three, behind the US and Germany – it was the largest trading nation.
