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Practical reasoning that helps a person decide how to do things (efficiently perform technical tasks, resolve conflicts, solve problems, etc.) by regarding the factors involved in a situation as variables to be controlled. The dominant mode of thinking in the industrial world, instrumental rationality lacks any notion of limits and has led to the creation of the modern technological infrastructure.
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instrumental rationality appears in the definition of the following term: industrialism
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