Interpretation and Rationality

Rationality, Intelligibility, and Interpretation

The Rationality of Round Interpretation

The issue of why there are round numbers has generally been analyzed using angles dealing with a variety of psychological and practical/strategic considerations (eg Dehaene and Mehler (1992), Wilson and Sperber (2002)). Expanding on a point made by Krifka (2007, p7-8), this paper uses elementary techniques from Bayesian statistics and game theory to reveal that in addition to such ”outside” (an...

The Rationality of Round Interpretation

This chapter is about why round numbers are seen as round; that is, as an approximation that can be used to refer to other numbers close to them. Much has been said about round numbers already, but other work has mostly focused on explaining the distribution of round numbers (which I will not be getting into at all) and why a speaker would want to use round numbers. Instead, we will look at thi...

Jurisprudence and Rationality

  There are different concepts of rationality: specific rationality, normative rationality and instrumental rationality whose limitation covers the holistic rationality and represents the fate of rationality in the West. Thus following Hume reason became the slave of feelings and lost its authority for choosing the goal. In Islamic culture reason with its undeniable background in Shariah enjoy...

An Adversarial Interpretation of Information-Theoretic Bounded Rationality

Recently, there has been a growing interest in modeling planning with information constraints. Accordingly, an agent maximizes a regularized expected utility known as the free energy, where the regularizer is given by the information divergence from a prior to a posterior policy. While this approach can be justified in various ways, including from statistical mechanics and information theory, i...