User talk:Mcsven

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Rationality

Hi McSven, There seems to be some back and forth on specifying the domain of rationality discussed in the opening sentence of the Rationality page. In other disciplines, such as economics, rationality can mean "optimal decisions given complete information." This is not "the exercise of reason" as is denoted by rationality within philosophy. The article moves into the additional meanings eventually, but it would be a mistake not to qualify that opening sentence. Perhaps a better opening sentence can be crafted, but removing the qualifier, "In philosophy" does not accomplish this, in my opinion. I'm open to discussing this more, and am writing to try and avoid a mini editing skirmish (which appears to have been ongoing for the past several months). Cheers, jj1236