Individual fallibility: limits to rationality
Errors and mistakes: causes, consequences and management in occupational health and safety

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Individual fallibility: limits to rationality


Errors and mistakes: causes, consequences and management in occupational health and safety

Author : Eduardo BLANCO MUNOZ

Publication date: July 10, 2021, Review date: January 6, 2023 | Lire en français

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3. Individual fallibility: limits to rationality

Understanding the structural limits described in the previous sections enables us to identify a first series of weaknesses, but it is also necessary in order to study the limits of our rationality. In fact, our deliberative processes emerge from the basis of situational awareness, which in turn emerges in relation to the information we perceive and the information available in our memory (with varying degrees of accuracy in the case of both the former and the latter, as we have just seen).

3.1 Logic

All available data can then be processed in a logical way. Understanding this logic can be approached from a number of different angles. From Aristotelian syllogistics to the various modalities of non-binary logic, via the approach of algorithmic calculus and propositional...

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