What counts is the 'internal rationality' of the reasoning process.
This may have distorting effects on the rationality of the learning process.
In a provocative review article, Baron showed that some decisions are not made on rational grounds as the subjects do not seem to weigh the consequences of their decisions [ 1] This is important because if true, such a phenomenon would cast doubt on the rationality of the mental process of decision making.
Even in constitutional regimes, no fully satisfactory answer has been found to the question of how these bureaucratic decision makers can be held accountable and their powers effectively restrained without, at the same time, jeopardizing the efficiency and rationality of the policy-making process.
Politician T" In general, the interviewees positioned themselves as rational actors who try to defend the rationality of the decision-making processes in spite of several factors that actually influence the decisions or actual implementation of the policies.
The procedural rationality (how to choose) of the process of long-term strategic decision making is then often neglected.
The influence on zooplankton community after half a year of algal blooms removed by chitosan-modified soils in Taihu Lake was assessed and the rationality of carrying out the process semiannually was evaluated in the present study.
If the rationality of a planning process comes from interaction and mutual adjustment, why not to organize this, enlarging the opportunity to expose planning decisions to the formal participation of a plurality of actors?
This is a fundamental preoccupation of the Romantics, who believed the way to reconcile man and nature was through this soul development, education the combination of experience and contemplation and that only this process, not the rationality of the previous century, would bring about true Enlightenment.
"Certain aspects of the process of emotion and feeling are indispensable for rationality" (Damasio, 1996: 10).
