Both Uses of
rational
in
Babbitt
- How to become a rational, powerful and original thinker.†
Chpt 6rational = reasonable
- But one thing he does demand of all teachers and lecturers and journalists: if we're going to pay them our good money, they've got to help us by selling efficiency and whooping it up for rational prosperity!†
Chpt 14 *
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.