Infrarationality

A framework examining the infrastructure underlying rationality itself—the systems, structures, and conditions that make rational thought possible and shape what counts as rational. Infrarationality asks not just what rational choices are but what must be in place for rationality to operate: cognitive infrastructure (attention, memory, reasoning capacity), informational infrastructure (data, evidence, reliable sources), social infrastructure (communities of inquiry, standards of argument, practices of critique), institutional infrastructure (education, science, law), and conceptual infrastructure (frameworks, categories, assumptions). It also examines how this infrastructure shapes what counts as rational—how different infrastructures produce different rationalities, how changes in infrastructure transform rational possibilities, how claims to rationality often obscure the infrastructure that makes them possible. Infrarationality reveals that rationality is never just rationality—it's always rationality built on infrastructure, and understanding rationality requires understanding the ground from which it grows.

Example: "His infrarationality analysis showed how the 'rational actor' of economic theory depends on infrastructure real humans lack—perfect information, unlimited computing power, stable preferences. Change the infrastructure assumptions, and rational choice looks very different."

by Dumu The Void March 16, 2026

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When the body’s immune system releases chemicals that swell in a joint

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information organisation

Process of organising information be means of files and various other electronis media

Since practicing information organisation, everything's looking up.

by Hercolena Oliver October 18, 2008

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information illustration

Adding graphics to text

Information illustration serves to make text more comprehensible.

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information spam

(n.)(v.) An overabundance of information deemed mostly irrelevant by its recipient. Information is typically random but may be focused on one specific item for an undetermined amount of time. Information spam can be

(n.) Hey Smith, I got your information spam about laser bug zappers on Facebook.

(v.) I plan on an information spamming George about binary code via email.

by mountaintop February 17, 2010

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