The word
"rational" means thinking and acting in a logical and sensible way, based on reason and evidence rather than emotions or beliefs.
Full definition
Silence = support, at least in the court
of rational thinking people.
It must stand at the service of
rational thought as a necessary or completing element in the search for an optimistic and ethical world view.
Divorce mediation is the best alternative for
rational people whose goal is to get out without hurting each other.
In general this site assumes interest
in rational discussion of technology and civilization.
This in turn leads to
more rational decision making and will result in fewer conflicts.
We currently have little
rational basis for saying that a particular school is a good school or that a particular superintendent is a good superintendent.
It takes practice to learn how to replace thoughts that are
not rational with more realistic ones.
They have a duty to demand that space for
rational argument in newspapers, journals and programmes.
It makes the useful point that they can't deal
with rational explanations or arguments — won't be able to set priorities or remember the logical points.
It is probably reasonable to conclude that any dreams of silverware are the triumph of hope over expectation and that entertainment is the only
rational reason for attending or following most clubs.
Surely a prior step should be to try to help change this and other conversations into more
rational approaches?
Your teenager will be able to make these decisions based
on rational thought more quickly and with more confidence as she gains more experience.
If you are as logical as you claim, you would see this fallacy immediately and pick more
rational ways by which to judge the state of your personal safety.
They put the students and families in the role of consumer, making
rational choices about what the best option is for their circumstance.
The children were the
only rational beings to participate in the feature.
Write, interpret, and explain statements of order for
rational numbers in real - world contexts.
While some investors may ask for this, it's the exception as
most rational investors will want to understand what it takes to be cash flow positive.
Men are not simply
rational beings who make ethical decisions and choose their goals by a series of logical calculations.
Indeed, beauty can have its own power to bring people to faith
from rational argument.
Your trying to
use rational arguments on me is just the devil testing me.
The perfected clock was a superb example of
rational design, efficiency, organization, and mathematical order.
Creating a good schedule is a very
rational thing, but sticking to that schedule is decidedly emotional.
As such, behavioral funds seek to take advantage of pricing anomalies that may exist in the continuum between
rational investors and irrational investors by tracking their sentiment and decision - making.
Generally speaking, clients behave in an economically
rational manner and turn to the best means of addressing their legal service needs.
Any attempt at
rational debate has been well and truly killed off by the «skeptics».
Because of games like the prisoner's dilemma, in which
rational self - interest hurts everyone, game theory has been used in political science, ethics and philosophy.
The only
rational conclusion if you believe the universe is not eternal is that something beyond the universe caused it to come into existence.
Collective action dilemma occurs when you have a group of people all acting in a
perfectly rational way for their own interests in the short term.
This is man's true definition and not the so - called metaphysical definition of man as a «
rational animal» which upon reflection is quite relative and really biological.
In the kind of
rational system the judge proposes, you determine what you are trying to do before you decide what you are going to spend.
I found that the politics at a university are more influenced by
rational discourse than politics in global health, especially in a major bureaucracy.
There are many, many, many things about law and taxes that do not make
rational sense.
Bubble is formed
when rational people performing irrational stunts.