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- noun philosophy, sciences The state or characteristic of being
arational , of being outside thedomain ofreason .
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Thinking of the relationship between the rational and the social as one of opposition, it is not surprising to find Larry Laudan proposing an "arationality principle": "[T] he sociology of knowledge may step in to explain beliefs if and only if those beliefs cannot be explained in terms of their rational merits" (Laudan 1977: 202).
Social Epistemology Goldman, Alvin 2006
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