¿QUÉ QUIERE DECIR «RACIONAL»? (MULTIUSOS DE ESE TÉRMINO PERSUASIVO)

Abstract

This paper offers a wide array of meanings for «rationality», they are mainly used in order to achieve heterogeneous goals for the so called practical Reason. The choices between those language uses (whether precise or imprecise) are indeed optional, a kind of voluntaristic knowledge; the present study underlines the emotional-rhetorical connotation (persuasive language) that they often carry with them. In addition, an extensive bibliography on the subject is included at the end.