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"Instrumental" and "value-rational action" are terms scholars use to identify two kinds of behavior that humans can engage in. Scholars call using means that "work" as tools, instrumental action, and pursuing ends that are "right" as legitimate ends, value-rational action.
A research proposal is a document proposing a research project, generally in the sciences or academia, and generally constitutes a request for sponsorship of that research. [1] Proposals are evaluated on the cost and potential impact of the proposed research, and on the soundness of the proposed plan for carrying it out. [2] Research proposals ...
An "instrumental rationalist" is a decision expert whose response to seeing a man engaged in slicing his toes [the man’s value rational fact-free end] with a blunt knife [the man’s instrumental value-free means] is to rush to advise him that he should use a sharper knife to better serve [instrumentally] his evident [value rational] objective.
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Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale. This tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. To patrollers and administrators : If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
This page provides some basic examples for how to write a fair use rationale. Good rationales might expand on why the non-free item is needed, why a free item cannot be used in its place, and what essential function it performs in each article in which it is to be used. Please modify the text so that it applies to the specific image and use of it.
This short template is used for indicating that the rationale given in a !vote in an RfA, XfD, RfC, RM, noticeboard thread, or other consensus discussion has been disputed, and where this dispute is detailed, without inserting the details of the dispute into the !voting section. An alias of this template is {{Disputed rationale}}.
[[Category:Rationale templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Rationale templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last character.