Fisher revisited

His apparent thesis describes narrative as a universal and elemental form of human communication. Narratives include any speech or act that has “sequence and meaning” for the speaker/actor or someone who interprets the behavior. To understand the narrative paradigm we will compare it directly to Fisher’s understanding of the rational paradigm.
Fisher lists five competing and correlating suppositions for each paradigm. First, narrative and rational conceptions of the world describe humanity at its core as storytellers and rational beings respectively. The second, third and fourth suppositions all involve the nature of human communication. The second simply calls communication “narrative” or “rational.” The third identifies the rules that govern the communication. The rationalist view operates out of the needs of the situation. The narrative view draws conclusions from descriptive materials like history and biography. The fourth area discusses who is qualified to evaluate communication. For the rationalists, expertise or training is required. In a narrative world each person can determine what is true by considering narrative probability and narrative fidelity. Narrative probability deals with the structure of the story and narrative fidelity considers the seeming genuineness or truth of it. The final supposition defines the world. The narrative world consists of a set of stories and we may choose our own adventure. the logical world is made of complex puzzles for us to solve.
Fisher says that narrative competes with, subsumes, and is in some circumstances superior to rationality. If all of this is true, then what are the other forms of narrative and how are they superior or inferior to rationality? Fisher has created tension in his theory by making the two a simultaneous combination and competition.