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ExploRational · openings in reasoning

A Catalogue of
Divergent Rationality

Reasoning is usually praised for how well it closes — narrows, decides, proves. This is a catalogue of the other discipline: moves whose purpose is to open. Each adds hypotheses, framings, vantage points, or live options before anything is allowed to close — because the quality of a decision is bounded by the quality of the alternatives that ever reached its table.

the bench The Reactor The catalogue's moves, running live on one hard problem: where to site a nuclear plant. Toggle purposes and set how hard each one binds — mandates carve the terrain, preferences concentrate what is left, and what survives is the underdetermined, the answers no one could call irrational. Load a persona, switch terrains, or overlay two rationalities and watch one terrain become different worlds. open the model →
decision game Nuclear Reactor Siting: The Gamea political season over the Reactor's dials — dealt a rationality, you pull opinion your way; the Board draws the answer
I

The Five Dimensions

Tap a dimension to isolate its coordinate across the whole catalogue.

II

The Catalogue

III

The Reopening

One sentence can close a door. Choose what to open, and by what mechanism; the reading, the moves, and the risks follow.

“Realistically, we have no choice — we have to take the offer and move fast.”

SURFACE: a conclusion · FORCE: a door closing

Open what · the target of the move
By · the mechanism

The reopening, under these settings

Moves to reach for

How this opening fails

IV

How Opening Fails

Opening is not the refusal to decide. It is the refusal to decide before the real alternatives exist — and a divergent move is finally judged by the quality of the closure it makes possible.