A very recent debate relevant to the rationality of delusions concerns the step from abnormal data gathered via perception and the delusional belief.
Anderson's doctrine of divine incomprehensibility is true but trivial, and not obviously relevant to the rationality of belief in apparent contradictions about God.
The relevant notion of rationality that can be applied to such a process is procedural and discursive; it is developed in terms of the procedural properties of communication necessary to make public will formation rational and thus for it to issue in a genuine rather than merely de facto consensus.
Of course, these answers to the question of what it is for an emotion to be reasonable suppose that the relevant notion of rationality is an epistemic one, and that what appropriate emotions succeed in achieving is some sort of representational adequacy.
It remains possible to argue, as Rachels does, that the potentially relevant differences, e.g., in rationality or in the related capacity for moral agency, are exaggerated.
Game theory occupies an increasingly important role within economics itself, and it is also relevant both to inquiries concerning rationality and inquiries concerning ethics.
Since design is a form of action, a structured series of decisions to proceed in one way rather than another, the form of rationality that is relevant to it is practical rationality, the rationality incorporating the criteria on how to act, given particular circumstances.
As a consequence, epistemic intensions identify representational states that are relevant to assessing a person's rationality and to explaining rational thought processes.
Above we explained several features of Reid's epistemology and his foundationalism relevant for understanding his analysis of the rationality of belief in God.
The rationality of the proposed ξ is proven by the comprehensive relevant interface information and its good correlations with both RA replacement ratios and concrete macro properties, respectively.
