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Everyone is alone. Everyone is empty.
- Mar 11, 2022
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Most people use the word very loosely as they tend to do. If rationality entails sole deduction, then only mathematics or very specific philosophical frameworks with set axioms are rational. Then you could be rational for short, limited bouts of time, but being inherently rational, so to speak, is literally impossible. A more applicable definition, practically speaking, would be something like this: Rational - endowed with the capacity to reason. (taken from just googling definition of rational)."Rationalism, in Western philosophy, the view that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge."
You're rational when you use deduction to reach your conclusions. Neither sensation, nor emotions.
Being rational doesn't mean you're necessarily right, maybe that's why your question is very large.