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Full Idea
The constraints of rationality ought to be thought of adverbially; they are a matter of the way in which we coordinate our intentionality.
Clarification
'Intentionality' is the capacity to think ABOUT things, to have meaning
Gist of Idea
Rationality is the way we coordinate our intentionality
Source
John Searle (Rationality in Action [2001], Ch.1.II)
Book Ref
Searle,John R.: 'Rationality in Action' [MIT 2001], p.23
| 23344 | Reason itself must be compounded from some of our impressions [Epictetus] |
| 23247 | The need to act produces consciousness, and practical reason is the root of all reason [Fichte] |
| 22035 | The structure of reason is a social and historical achievement [Hegel, by Pinkard] |
| 3812 | Rationality is the way we coordinate our intentionality [Searle] |
| 3806 | Rationality is built into the intentionality of the mind, and its means of expression [Searle] |
| 2505 | Turing invented the idea of mechanical rationality (just based on syntax) [Fodor] |
| 2463 | A standard naturalist view is realist, externalist, and computationalist, and believes in rationality [Fodor] |
| 1584 | Modern science, by aiming for clarity about the external world, has abandoned rationality in the human world [Roochnik] |
| 3125 | Psychology studies the way rationality links desires and beliefs to causality [Segal] |