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Rationality, philosophy: rationality is the ability of a being to consciously adapt to a situation due to the generalizations of his experiences. It can also be rational to want to learn something new. See also system, order, creativity, discoveries, evaluation, repetition.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Karl Popper on Rationality - Dictionary of Arguments

Black III 26
Rationality/Popper/Black: (Popper, "Utopia and Violence" in: Conjectures and Refutations, London, 1963, pp. 356-57).
Def Rationalism/Popper: Thesis: A rationalist is someone who seeks to make decisions through arguments and perhaps also through compromise rather than violence.
Rationality/Self-reasoning/ultimate judstification/Popper: my rationalism is not self-contained (not based on itself, not justified by itself) but based on an irrational belief in the attitude of reasonableness. I do not see how one can go beyond that.
>Ultimate justification.
III 27
Rationality/Popper: Rationality is based among other things on the willingness to compromise instead of violence. - It is based on an irrational belief in the attitude of reasonableness.
Rationality/Popper is based, inter alia, on the willingness for a compromise rather than violence - is based on an irrational belief in the attitude of reasonableness. - Popper: "I hate violence". - BlackVsPopper: Popper also provides no grounds against violence. - BlackVsPopper: rationality can be defended quite rationally instead.


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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Po I
Karl Popper
The Logic of Scientific Discovery, engl. trnsl. 1959
German Edition:
Grundprobleme der Erkenntnislogik. Zum Problem der Methodenlehre
In
Wahrheitstheorien, Gunnar Skirbekk, Frankfurt/M. 1977

Black I
Max Black
"Meaning and Intention: An Examination of Grice’s Views", New Literary History 4, (1972-1973), pp. 257-279
In
Handlung, Kommunikation, Bedeutung, G. Meggle (Hg), Frankfurt/M 1979

Black II
M. Black
The Labyrinth of Language, New York/London 1978
German Edition:
Sprache. Eine Einführung in die Linguistik München 1973

Black III
M. Black
The Prevalence of Humbug Ithaca/London 1983

Black IV
Max Black
"The Semantic Definition of Truth", Analysis 8 (1948) pp. 49-63
In
Truth and Meaning, Paul Horwich, Aldershot 1994


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