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Rationality

In "Philosophy: Who Needs It?" Ayn Rand talks about thinking and the faculty of reason. Based on this excerpt what do you think about rationality:

Philosophy: Who Needs It?
Philosophy provides man with a comprehensive view of life. Philosophy involves an integrated view of existence/principles
Principles: integrated observations, experiences, knowledge into abstract ideas
Reason functions by integrating perceptual data into concepts. Truth is the recognition of reality. Theory is a set of abstract principles purporting to be either a correct description of reality or a set of guidelines of man’s actions. Correspondence to reality is the standard of value by which one estimates a theory. The purpose of thinking...to acquire knowledge and guide man’s actions. Logic is the art or skill of non-contradictory identification.
Nothing made by man had to be: it was made by choice.
Men’s volition (power of choice) is an attribute of his consciousness (rational faculty) and consists in the choice to perceive existence, to discover the characteristics or properties (identities) of the things that exist, means to discover and accept the metaphysically given. Only on the basis of this knowledge is man able to learn how the things given in nature can be rearranged to serve his needs (which is his method of survival).
Some men do not judge the truth of a statement by its correspondence to reality---they judge reality to its correspondence to their feelings. Since an emotion is experienced as an immediate primary, but is in fact a complex, derivative sum, it permits men to practice...rationalization.
Rationalization is the process of attempting to make reality fit one’s feelings.

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