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Emil DINGA

Academia Română

The paper aims to theorize the civil concept of normative rationality (or normative explanation or, still, normative prediction). To this end, at the beginning of the study some short clarifications on the concept of norms are delivered and, based on them, the logical connections between norm and goal, norm and rationality, norm and explanation, and norm and prediction are presented and examined. The main idea of the study is the so called normative rationality is, logically, a time order inversed prediction and this type of rationality is named t-rationality, because it is originated in the teleology (theory of goals). In order to explain the generating of t-rationality, a new concept is introduced: goalness device, that is, an a-rational intellectual device aimed to deliver target-goals, unlike rational devices that deliver procedure-goals (or means). The paper examines, also, the semantic relationship between t-rationality and q-rationality (the rationality which integrates some kinds of irrationality).

ŒCONOMICA no. 4/2015

Keywords: rationality, normativity, prediction, goal, norm, explanation, teleology

JEL: B41, C00, E17

T-Rationality [T-Raţionalitatea]

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