rationality

"These rules lack humanity and rationality, and they oppress us every day."

From Barron's ● Jan. 9, 2026

We comfort the comfortable, and we look for hope in norms and in institutions and in rationality.

From Slate ● Dec. 17, 2025

This work challenges long-held assumptions that rationality, defined as forming and updating beliefs based on evidence, belongs only to humans.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2025

Tylor and Robertson Smith agreed, however, that what Tylor called the “essential rationality of primitive peoples” linked the savage past and the civilized present.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

Second, there is the claim that the concept of rationality is always culturally relative.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

She was as mired in the notions of the Old World, in its rationalities, its explanations, its conventions, and its Protestantism, as my father was a product of his Catholicism and his own colonial past.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

They have to be continually reproduced, against the everyday resistances and rationalities that throw inequality into question.

From Slate ● Nov. 22, 2019

As an economist, I eschew the soft-headed convenience of ready-made ideologies, together with their carrying rationalities, turning upon intellectual vulgarities I haven’t the stomach to bear.

From Economist ● Nov. 26, 2013

Underlying all this confusion is the problem that we don't have a way of ranking rationalities, so that the word means something more to a moral agent than it does to an economist.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012

They seem like stray vestiges of that primordial irrationality, from which all our rationalities have been evolved.

From Memories and Studies by Henry James