rationality
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"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
It’s the second factor that often keeps takeover bids alive long after the proposed deals lose their economic rationality.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 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
To add insult to injury, the Pythagoreans soon discovered that the golden ratio, the ultimate Pythagorean symbol of beauly and rationality, was an irrational number.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing rationality
John Nash (1928-2015) Tribute List
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"Simon's Saga," Vocabulary from Episode 21
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