The quality of being consistent with reason and logic; the capacity for making decisions that maximize expected outcomes.
From Latin 'rationalis' meaning 'of or belonging to reason,' from 'ratio' (reason, calculation).
Rationality is your brain at its most logical — it means thinking things through carefully instead of going with your gut.
Enlightenment philosophy opposed 'reason' (masculine, public) to 'emotion' (feminine, private), systematically devaluing women's intellectual contributions and excluding them from knowledge-making institutions.
Recognize that emotion and intuition inform reasoning; avoid pitting 'rationality' against care, embodiment, or affect. Value diverse ways of knowing.
["reasoning","logic","evidence-based thinking"]
Women philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians were systematically excluded from 'rationality' discourse; historians of science now credit women whose contributions were erased or attributed to men.
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