John Rawls characterizes political rationality as narrowly self-regarding and therefore incapable of motivating other-regard, self-moderation, or cooperative behavior. He ascribes these properties solely to reasonable, principled, reasoning. This article evaluates Rawls’s account by investigating his characterization the democratic modus vivendi, which builds upon this account: asserts that viv...

In this paper, with help of the concept of hyper-rationality, we model the interaction between two investment companies by an important game as trickery game that has special equilibrium which called hyper-equilibrium. In trickery game, one company can choose cooperation with another company until the last moment and finally changes his action to non-cooperation which incur more loss to an oppo...

Abstract A standard interpretation of the character Hamlet is that he indecisive, even pathologically so, and his indecisiveness manifested by lengthy passage time between when told father’s death was a murder kills perpetrator. Rational choice in economics concerns connection means ends. person rational if, given her ends (her goals), she chooses reasonable to achieve those With uncertainty, b...

What Feldman’s students thought was that “while they had their own beliefs, the others had reasonable beliefs as well.” (p. 200) And Feldman rightly points out that this view is “widespread” in the contemporary world. This liberal epistemological view, in other words, is a piece of contemporary common sense, at least in societies where political liberalism holds sway. Here is a sympathetic form...

Creating and maintaining ontology knowledge bases are difficult processes that can be improved by using macro or templating languages that help structure the ontology engineering task and reduce unnecessary repetitions of ontology patterns. However, since the templates themselves need to be created and maintained, suitable tool support for their maintenance is vital in order to ensure the quali...

The purpose of this work is to look at the expectations and actions that exist around the use of hearing protectors. Are our expectations for the performance of hearing protectors rational and is the way we expect them to be used reasonable? Perhaps we are expecting too much of hearing protectors and their ability to effectively reduce noise exposure. Better understanding of expectations and re...

This paper establishes an objective and comprehensive evaluation index system of online P2P lending platforms based on the online P2P lending theory with the Analytic Hierarchy Process in the perspective of lenders. It also makes the empirical analysis which takes ten P2P platforms as examples. The results show that the evaluation system is scientific and reasonable, which can provide reference...

The use of questionnaires is widespread in psychological assessment. Typically items are constructed more or less “intuitively” and their difficulty is determined with empirical studies. In order to improve the construct validity of questionnaire items an approach to constructing questionnaires by using construction rationals is demonstrated. This approach has its origins in the cognitive scien...