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Rationality as Consistency

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Crooked Thinking or Straight Talk?

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Engineering is usually understood to be the application of the physical sciences topractical problems in the physical world. Social engineering is the application of thesocial sciences to practical problems in the social world.

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Correspondence to Ken Binmore .

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Binmore, K. (2020). Rationality as Consistency. In: Crooked Thinking or Straight Talk?. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39547-6_2

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