Routine activity usually goes smoothly overall, despite frequent minor glitches, because we have methods for repairing trouble.| Meta-rationality
We actively work to perceive aspects of the world as meaningful, in terms of our purposes, in context.| Meta-rationality
Defining the subject matter: rationality, rationalism, reasonableness, and meta-rationality.| Meta-rationality
This fits what I’ve been thinking about in terms of the meaning of “meaning.” Meaning is a connection between things: between words and what they refer to, between actions and intentions, etc. Reasonableness preserves these connections, even if it doesn’t always attend to all of them (e.g. butterfly effects).| metarationality.com