Such a person also needs to be "free from illusions" and self deceptions

Such processes rely (trust) on rational participants: "We call a person rational who interprets the nature of his desires and feelings in the light of culturally established standards of value, but especially if he can adopt a reflective attitude to the very value standards through which desires and feelings are interpreted."

• Such processes rely (trust) on rational participants: "We call a person rational who interprets the nature of his desires and feelings in the light of culturally established standards of value, but especially if he can adopt a reflective attitude to the very value standards through which desires and feelings are interpreted."

Such a person also needs to be “free from illusions” and self deceptions.

• Such a person also needs to be “free from illusions” and self deceptions.

Communicative action also presupposes that actors are capable of mutual criticism.

• Communicative action also presupposes that actors are capable of mutual criticism.

1. A process of examining reasons which excludes force and is “immunized against repression and inequality”.

• 1. A process of examining reasons which excludes force and is “immunized against repression and inequality”.

• 2. An interaction subject to special rules (e.g. as in a debate).

• 3. The production of cogent arguments around a thematised problem.

The processes by which different validity claims are brought to a satisfactory resolution.

• The processes by which different validity claims are brought to a satisfactory resolution.

• The relations to the world that people take to forward validity claims for the expressions they deem important.