Once physiological constraints are admitted as constitutive of rational environments, no principled boundary prevents cellular metabolism or quantum noise from becoming rationality-relevant, generating explanatory regress.
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The circumstances, conditions, and systems in which thinking, reasoning, or intelligent behavior takes place.
Rationality-relevant(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
Something that matters for or affects how reasoning and thinking work—something that should be considered part of the explanation for why we think the way we do.
constitutive of(as used in metaphysics)
Something that is essential to making something what it is—if you remove it, the thing is no longer that thing.
principled boundary(as used in metaphysics/ontology)
A clear, rule-based dividing line between what counts and what doesn't count—like having consistent standards for when something qualifies.