3. Individual fallibility: limits to rationality
Understanding the structural limits described in the previous sections enables us to identify a first series of weaknesses, but it is also necessary in order to study the limits of our rationality. In fact, our deliberative processes emerge from the basis of situational awareness, which in turn emerges in relation to the information we perceive and the information available in our memory (with varying degrees of accuracy in the case of both the former and the latter, as we have just seen).
3.1 Logic
All available data can then be processed in a logical way. Understanding this logic can be approached from a number of different angles. From Aristotelian syllogistics to the various modalities of non-binary logic, via the approach of algorithmic calculus and propositional...
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Standards and norms
- Occupational health and safety management systems – Requirements and guidelines for use - ISO 45001:2018 - 2018
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Article 121-3 of the French Penal Code.
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Larousse dictionary https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/erreur/30846
The Bayesian brain https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/stanislas-dehaene/course-2012-02-21-09h30.htm
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