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ARE PEOPLE RATIONAL? Rational thinking is characterized as one of the base structures of humanity. Without it the evolution of human race would not be as it is. It is so important that philosophers such as Aristotle were analyzing the aspect many years before the birth of Christ. For Aristotle the mind which was called the "nous" was functioning in many complex and different ways, for perceiving the world and the way of its existence. After many patterns he followed, based on rational thinking he suggested that none of things existing in actuality before thinking. A simple definition given for rationality is: "One act is accordance with laws of logic "where logic does not describe the philosophy of reasoning with its flashes on insight and over sight, but it describes methods of justifying reasoning". In Longmans Dictionary of contemporary English the definition given is "this which is based on clear,...

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