By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
I believe, in the stock market - that's one of my fields - that most people are irrational. And to be irrational, you can be irrational in so many different ways that, practically, the result is indeterminate.
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.
In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.