(July 15, 2021 at 10:51 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That’s generally taken to be the difference between a rational thing and a rationalized thing, no?
I think that the sort of rationality being described might exclude that by default. A happy accident rather than the rigorous application of formal process.
I was thinking differently, somewhat, recently. My distinction between rational and rationalizing was whether the reasons were ad hoc or well established.