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“Hi all. Over the last day or so I have talked about your project with a few DDA members and what arose from these conversations was a shared concern that because the project was not an initiative created by/run by the DDA there are no controls in place for this at present. For instance, there is no DDA policy about how to allow /or even if it should allow an outside group to use the DDA’s parking data for a private enterprise. There is a concern about how unsecure/secure the DDA website is made when sharing this data. And finally, a concern that if the project had value to parking patrons, that the DDA itself should consider providing this service as an extension of what it is already doing on-line.”

"1) Rational solutions need not be universal, instead they will be only effective in appropriate contexts.

2) Rationally acceptable conclusions do not have to follow necessarily from the information given, as acceptance is not to be understood in terms of a formal relationship between propositions but in terms of a practical commitment.

3) The rationality of the conclusions is not necessarily determined by whether they conform to the appropriate rules, indeed the primary focus is removed from conclusions and placed upon actions that are taken on the basis of beliefs and methods that are all subject to further criticism and development. "

"Also, I approach the issue from the direction of looking at the nature of rationality – superstition being perhaps the most infamous example of what is seen as humans failing to be rational. Given such an approach, superstition is of interest as it shows something of how human reasoning works by showing how it fails to work. In particular, it is of interest to me as I think that rationality, not just human rationality but any rationality at all, must be understood to be inherently limited or, to use Herbert Simon’s term, bounded. In that context, the study of superstition becomes the study of the bounds of reason."