Episode 4.01: Rationality is not what we like to think.

We tend to assume that there is only one kind of rationality, but there are as many rationalities as there are sets of assumptions on which we base our reason. That we inherit the assumptions of our culture only serves to encourage us to think of them as the only or the best forms of rationality, but this is an unwarranted assumption. Different cultural forms are not mad or irrational; they have arisen because their peoples have made different choices.