Developed further, the paradox constitutes a major challenge to the possibility of pure instrumental rationality.

Jürgen Habermas has critiqued the concept of pure instrumental rationality as meaning that scientific-thinking becomes something akin to ideology itself.

In science fiction literature, the progress of pure rationality is viewed as a quality which may lead civilization ultimately toward a scientific future dependent on technology.

Behavioral economics has added a large number of other amendments to our picture of human behavior that go against pure economic rationality.

These doctrines were "characterized by a resistance to the dominance of either pure rationality or doctrinal faith."

She drew another breath, getting a grip on her panic, overriding the old Neanderthal instincts with pure rationality.

For hadn't we faith in pure rationality, pure logic and language pruned of all sentiment, all tribal history; wasn't the dream of philosophy possible, even now?

"Something is knocking on the doors," Theodora said in a tone of pure rationality.

Some of also us came to suspect that pure rationality too often serves to mask a highly irrational will to power.

But there is also a greater skepticism of pure rationality in every approach to architecture.