Rationality
[,ræʃə'nælətɪ] or [,ræʃən'æləti]
Definition
(noun.) the quality of being consistent with or based on logic.
(noun.) the state of having good sense and sound judgment; 'his rationality may have been impaired'; 'he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions'.
Typist: Ruth--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.
Typist: Moira
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Sanity, soundness of mind.
Inputed by Bruno
Examples
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Which would turn out to have the more foresight in it--her rationality or Caleb's ardent generosity? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Taken as such a step or stage, its existence is proof of its complete rationality, for it is an integral element in the total, which is Reason. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- An individual becomes rational only as he absorbs into himself the content of rationality in nature and in social institutions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Because rationality itself is a wilful exercise one hears Hymns to Reason and sees it personified as an extremely dignified goddess. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Finally, I shook the thing, hoping to recall it for a moment to rationality. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
Typist: Morton