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“Better” / “preferable” / “utility” / … is necessary for “usefulness” e.g. “usefulness of this communication” (and also for decision-making).
By “not a binary” I mean the division is not into “rational” / “non-rational”, but into “more rational” / “less rational”; where “rational” is relevant to the aforementioned “better” (with regards to efficiency of optimization and also forms of communication).
… vaguely speaking.
On thought, my response is that no circular argument can possibly be rational so the question of if rationality is binary is irrelevant. You are mostly right, though for some purposes rational/irrational is better considered as a binary.
Any particular examples?