Drawing a new distinction is one way to make intellectual progress. "We've been treating all these things the same way, but this lot is significantly different from that lot." (This is a type of ontological remodeling.)
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Introducing the new term "meta-rational" (1) draws attention to important, mostly-overlooked aspects of technical practice and (2) points out that existing theories do not explain them. That brings the adequacy of rationalisms into question more broadly.
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Strong, angry pushback against the concept of meta-rationality seems to stem from taking rationality as a Holy Ultimate. There can't be anything beyond rationality, because that would call into question its promises of salvation. Interesting, isn't it?
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