Synonym: level-headed, logical, reasonable, sensible, sound, thinking. Antonym: absurd. Similar words: rationalize, national, educational, nationalism, international, organizational, constitutional convention, emotional. Meaning: ['ræʃənl] n. an integer or a fraction. adj. 1. consistent with or based on or using reason 2. of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind 3. capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers 4. having its source in or being guided by the intellect (distinguished from experience or emotion).
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151 Rational agents are not repeatedly and systematically duped by the actions of the monetary authorities.
152 It pays lip service to local choices but provides no specific means to make them more rational and efficient.
153 Rational techniques were introduced to try to solve what were perceived to be problems at the time.
154 Possession of such direct observations on expectations would allow us to test the validity of the rational expectations hypothesis in two ways.
155 The personalized nature of disputes caused litigants to pursue all possible legal strategies even when it would have been more rational to compromise.
156 There is nothing in the criteria which it stipulates for rational behaviour that confines its application to a market clearing framework.
157 There is a sense of all rational control or deliberation seeping away or being under much less deliberative control.
158 Man is so constructed that such isolation is too immense to conceive and the young cabin boy loses his rational faculties.
159 In contrast to the Rational / Bureaucratic model, formal authority relationships are minimized in the Collegial / Consensus model.
160 Are we free to modify Our moral sense by rational reflection and conscious goal-setting or not?
161 Cognition is to do with the rational domain: logic(sentencedict.com/rational.html), reasoning and problem solving uncomplicated by irrational behaviour.
162 In turn, this presupposes treating the other as a person, as, at least partly, a rational being.
163 The project explores the foundations of rational choice theory, probing the limitations of this theory and developing new approaches.
164 Yet these are feelings which seem to contradict the universalist, rational aspirations of liberalism.
165 The label rational basis would simply be reflective of a conclusion already reached that the court does not wish to intervene.
166 The mental stance the rational person seeks to organize in this way includes both beliefs and attitudes.
167 Contracting arrangements Editor, - B Olsburgh raises the question of rational distribution of health care resources in relation to coronary artery bypass grafting.
168 They were the rational, atheistic two, lost to the evangelical religion of their father.
169 Must we then conclude that the Zande are in these terms irrational, incapable of rational(sentencedict.com), cause-and-effect reasoning?
170 This is, after all, the most spectacular and controversial example of the radical implications of rational expectations in macroeconomics.
171 This is the mystery of sin which has no rational explanation, for it is ultimately and radically inexplicable.
172 Even the betting person makes a carefully calculated and rational decision about where to put his or her money.
173 So indeterminism is a necessary condition of the later development of morally important freedom in rational beings.
174 It is more prudent, more rational and more natural to use organic materials - manures.
175 A criterion of reasonableness or rational basis is obviously a narrower standard of review.
176 Grice suggests that the maxims are in fact not arbitrary conventions, but rather describe rational means for conducting cooperative exchanges.
177 It is the specification of those basic intrinsic values that all rational beings would desire.
178 What characterises bureaucracy is the rational and systematic way in which official duties are defined and distributed.
179 Personal control over change and rational decisionmaking are important aspects of treatment.
180 And the heavy-metal lyrics and art exhibits already symbolizing the millennium with images of imminent apocalypse are more gloomy than rational.
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