For some this lock-step rationality will be reassuring, for others it will only magnify the fear.
I decided early in my teaching career, therefore, to help my students to think more critically by teaching them the steps of rationality.
Optimal sensor placement is a key step in the rationality, accuracy, long term, and economy of structural health monitoring.
The results were compared with those of the step-by-step calibration to demonstrate the rationality and feasibility of the multi-objective approach.
When engineering design is conceived as a process of decision making, governed by considerations of practical rationality, the next step is to specify these considerations.
Some philosophers use the concepts of progress and rationality as synonyms: progressive steps in science are precisely those that are based upon the scientists' rational choices.
A very recent debate relevant to the rationality of delusions concerns the step from abnormal data gathered via perception and the delusional belief.
How long can rationality go missing before sheer lunacy steps in to take its place?
If copies could be got into governments and development agencies it would be a major step towards a common platform of understanding of pastoral rationality, which is perhaps the most important outcome that can be expected.
The nontheist community goes one step further by valuing the pursuit of knowledge, not through divine revelation and ancient text, but through logic, rationality, and the scientific process.
Schön would perhaps disagree with the view of reflective practitioners following certain steps when performing reflection-in-action, as this seems to imply an instrumental approach that closely resembles the technical rationality which he criticizes.
