Rationality versus Intelligence

That's how you get rationality.

Rationality would facilitate promptness, effectiveness and agreeableness.

The principles of rationality and efficiency should guide the Committee.

A lot of people are worried about what is rationality about?

This will guarantee the fairness, equality, rationality and universality of international arrangements.

She agreed that the Committee s work should be inspired by two principles, namely, rationality and efficiency.

There was a need to emphasize rationality and efficiency in relation to the size of any expansion.

Well rationality is constructed by what Christie Hefner was talking about today, that mind body split, you know?

And I want to start by giving you some examples of visual illusion as a metaphor for rationality.

I have questions with the values of Newtonian science, like rationality. You're supposed to be rational in an argument.

And it concludes in something that you see here, that you actually wouldn't expect as being the result of rationality.

We are faced with an excellent opportunity to infuse our Organization with greater dynamism and rationality, more action and less bureaucracy.

And leadership for this huge revolutionary effort will probably have to come from visionary business executives whose profits depend on education and rationality.

In order to achieve those goals we have no alternative to an inclusive multilateralism that offers balance, rationality and justice in international relations.

There's also a contradiction in rationality in this country though, which is, as much as we revere the head, we are very anti intellectual.

The extension of human morality is a wonderful development for humanity, but it would be even better if it were tempered by cold blooded rationality.

17. The representative of Côte d Ivoire said that the principles of rationality and efficiency were essential for the Committee to be able to discharge its duties.

China endorsed the principles of rationality and efficiency, and believed that the Committee should not be too large, as that would not contribute to rapid decision making.

Success will largely depend upon our collective courage to question the feasibility and practicality not to mention the legality and rationality of the dominant interventionist paradigm and tendencies.

If we assume perfect rationality and complete markets, we are debarred from exploring the causes of large scale economic failures. Unfortunately, such assumptions have a profound influence on policy.

The charismatic figures of the mid twentieth century Churchill, Adenauer, and de Gaulle have no contemporary counterparts. Citizens associate the EU with, above all, bureaucratic grayness and technocratic rationality.

Culture is a reaction to nature, and this understanding of our ancestors is transmitted generation from generation in the form of stories, symbols and rituals, which are always indifferent to rationality.

We have copious knowledge, which enables us to split the atom, but we do not have enough rationality to prevent the misuse of nuclear fission for the manufacture of nuclear weapons.

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It's a process that takes rationality almost to an absurd level, and it transcends all the baggage that normally comes with what people would call, sort of, a rational conclusion to something.

In the current circumstances, which are difficult for the Conference's credibility, it is vital to confer greater continuity on the rationality and impetus of the President in the search for a consensus solution.

But it is important to realize that these thinking errors are more related to rationality than intelligence. They would be reduced if schools, businesses, and government focused on the parts of cognition that intelligence tests miss.

But it is important to realize that these thinking errors are more related to rationality than intelligence. They would be reduced if schools, businesses, and government focused on the parts of cognition that intelligence tests miss. 160

So a standard economist, someone who believes in rationality, would say, You know what? The cost of lifting the pencil and marking a V is higher than the possible benefit of the decision, so that's why we get this effect.

Thus was born the field of rational choice political economy, and a style of theorizing that many political scientists readily emulated. The apparent payoff was that we could now explain why politicians did so many things that violated economic rationality.

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Economists seek to detect collective irrationality, and economic models that assume individual rationality facilitate that. By ensuring that policies respond to flaws in the rules of the game, not to individuals fallibility or irrationality, this methodological individualism saves us from dictatorial paternalism.

Help to develop their personality and potential, encourage in them the formation of a critical outlook and effective will so that, little by little, they acquire rationality and moderation of judgement, self confidence, a spirit of initiative, and creativity in their work

But this assumes perfect rationality. In the real world, accidents occur, so more proliferation means a greater chance of eventual inadvertent use, weaker capacity in managing nuclear crises, and greater difficulty in establishing controls and reducing the role of nuclear weapons in world politics.

Experience has convinced us that the elimination of rationality from communication between peoples undermined the foundations of the ideology itself, for it turned out that peoples can be fed on myths just as much as they could during the period of the Communist experiment.

America s capital is once again abuzz with talk of war, not only of the latest strategy for victory in Iraq, but now also of military action against Iran. The harder it becomes to discern any rationality in the Bush administration s actions, the louder the rumor mill grinds.

Economists, political theorists, moral and political philosophers, sociologists, and even the general public rapidly took notice of what seemed like and indeed was a devastating result. Two centuries after visions of social rationality flowered in Enlightenment thinking, the project suddenly seemed, at least superficially, to be inescapably doomed.

Binding the union closer together could prove critical to building such trust. One strategy that combines rationality with the gradualism needed to overcome political resistance would be to increase the EU budget steadily, so that it can ultimately play a macroeconomic role, promoting stability and reinforcing cohesion within the eurozone.

The United States believed that the concept of a unitary United Nations provided a useful analytical framework for making the difficult decisions on how best to give coherence and rationality to the United Nations system, as well as a basis upon which to deal with the system on budgetary and policy grounds.

Ultimately, there is a fundamental and unresolved accountability deficit in the way libertarian paternalists go about nudging us. The Enlightenment idea that our System II rationality can always point to an optimal choice about which every reasonable individual would agree clashes with the widely accepted modern idea that there is a plurality of reasonable choices.

Frustrations will continue, like those over the last year as creative efforts by Security Council members and more recently by Brazil and Turkey  to find interim confidence building solutions were rebuffed, largely because the leaders of last year s democratic movement refused to support a compromise inclined President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But there is a solid foundation of rationality on which to build in keeping the door open for negotiations.

Frustrations will continue, like those over the last year as creative efforts by Security Council members and more recently by Brazil and Turkey to find interim confidence building solutions were rebuffed, largely because the leaders of last year s democratic movement refused to support a compromise inclined President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But there is a solid foundation of rationality on which to build in keeping the door open for negotiations.

There were a number of opportunities for action improvements in integrated and sustainable resource management greater coordination and dialogue between existing structures at the international, regional and national levels to ensure rationality in atmospheric protection measures and actions that protect the environment the engagement of the private sector and civil society the use of market and non market instruments to promote efficient energy end use and activities implemented jointly.