All 5 Uses of
rational
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- Meanwhile it would seem, as regards the moral question, that his analysis was complete; his casuistry had become keen as a razor, and he could not find rational objections in himself.†
Chpt 1.6rational = reasonable
- Far as he was from being capable of rational reflection at that moment, he felt that no one would behave like that with a person who was going to be arrested.†
Chpt 2.1
- Of course, in the future society there will be no need of assets, but her part will have another significance, rational and in harmony with her environment.†
Chpt 5.1
- "You always have been a very rational person and you've never been mad, never," he observed suddenly with warmth.†
Chpt 6.1 *
- From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse, a hundred suspicions don't make a proof, as the English proverb says, but that's only from the rational point of view—you can't help being partial, for after all a lawyer is only human.†
Chpt 6.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(rational as in: rational behavior) reasonable, able to think clearly, or based on logic rather than emotion
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, rational numbers in mathematics are numbers that can be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, 1/3 is a rational number while pi is an irrational number.