Time order arranges ideas in a chronological framework

If you walk into a movie theater box office to buy tickets and inadvertently cut off a lady that had arrived before you, and you offer an apology, which one of the following are you performing?

a. You are trying to exercise your social assertiveness. b. You are correcting a minor interaction offense. c. You are indicating the lady you were there before but you are glad to give up your turn. d. You have committed an offense, and while apologizing you are not accepting responsibility.

Which of the following is NOT one of the assumptions of the rational world paradigm?

A. Decision making is based on "good reasons." B. The world can be reduced to a series of logical relationships that are uncovered through reasoning. C. Humans are rational beings. D. Arguments adhere to specific criteria for soundness and logic.