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that one can impute the category "rational" to an action without that action involving a conscious choice simply confirms the position i've been arguing over the last few posts.
in the example of crowds tending to break to the left, you have a regularity of action. you can say it's rational by doing what you do--inserting it into a grid or frame that makes it so. so a regularity is rational is a regularity so long as that regularity is social (as over against an automatic reflex).
but that usage of rational has nothing to do with the sense in which ace was trying to use the term, which is restricted to economic theory. it has even less to do with the traditional western philosophical notion of a rational subject.
the term's vaporous.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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