Paradoxical Rational
03/01/13 16:23 Filed in: Philosophical
The idea of an irrational action, belief, intention, inference, or emotion is paradoxical. For the irrational is not merely the non-rational, which lies outside the ambit of the rational; irrationality is a failure within the house of reason.
From Donald Davidson, "Problems of Rationality", p. 169, Oxford University Press.