Editing Principle of rationality (section)

The '''principle of rationality''' (or '''rationality principle''') was coined by [[Karl R. Popper]] in his Harvard Lecture of 1963, and published in his book ''Myth of Framework''.<ref>[[Karl R. Popper]], ''The Myth of Framework'', London (Routledge) 1994, chap. 8.</ref> It is related to what he called the 'logic of the situation' in an ''Economica'' article of 1944/1945, published later in his book ''The Poverty of Historicism''.<ref>Karl R. Popper, ''The Poverty of Historicism'', London (Routledge) 1960, chap. iv, sect. 31.</ref> According to Popper's [[rationality]] principle, agents act in the most adequate way according to the objective situation. It is an idealized conception of human behavior which he used to drive his model of situational analysis. [[Cognitive scientist]] [[Allen Newell]] elaborated on the principle in his account of [[knowledge level modeling]].