Incoherence and irrationality

Dialectica 39 (4):345-54 (1985)
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* [Irrationality]: ___ Irrationality, like rationality, is a normative concept. Someone who acts or reasons irrationally, or whose beliefs or emotions are irrational, has departed from a standard.

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