rationality
Example Sentences
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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
There’s some discussion of how mere rationality gets you only so far.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 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
Some philosophers and nearly all anthropologists agreed: standards of rationality were, they insisted, local and highly variable.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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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167 Vocabulary words from the Supreme Court's DOMA Decision
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