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Rationality vs Soundness - What's the difference?

rationality | soundness |

As nouns the difference between rationality and soundness

is that rationality is quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness while soundness is the state or quality of being sound.

rationality

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
  • His sudden loss of rationality was brought on by excess drink.
  • Objectivity, considerateness.
  • Such a discussion deserves rationality , not emotion a gut reaction.

    Synonyms

    * rationalness

    Derived terms

    * instrumental rationality

    soundness

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or quality of being sound.
  • (countable) The result or product of being sound.
  • (logic) The property (of an argument) of not only being valid, but also of having true premises.
  • (logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is a theorem then it must also be valid. Symbolically, letting T'' represent a theory within logic ''L'', this can be represented as the property that whenever T \vdash \phi is true, then T \vDash \phi must also be true, for any wff ''φ'' of logic ''L .