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Single Idea 3806

[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 8. Naturalising Reason ]

Full Idea

Constraints of rationality are built into the structure of mind and language, specifically into the structure of intentionality and speech acts.

Clarification

'Intentionality' is the capacity to think ABOUT things, to have meaning

Gist of Idea

Rationality is built into the intentionality of the mind, and its means of expression

Source

John Searle (Rationality in Action [2001], Int xiv)

Book Ref

Searle,John R.: 'Rationality in Action' [MIT 2001], p.-3


The 9 ideas with the same theme [explaining reason as part of the natural world]:

Reason itself must be compounded from some of our impressions [Epictetus]
The need to act produces consciousness, and practical reason is the root of all reason [Fichte]
The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard]
Rationality is the way we coordinate our intentionality [Searle]
Rationality is built into the intentionality of the mind, and its means of expression [Searle]
Turing invented the idea of mechanical rationality (just based on syntax) [Fodor]
A standard naturalist view is realist, externalist, and computationalist, and believes in rationality [Fodor]
Modern science, by aiming for clarity about the external world, has abandoned rationality in the human world [Roochnik]
Psychology studies the way rationality links desires and beliefs to causality [Segal]