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Tunnel In the Sky
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- Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.†
Chpt 2 *rational = reasonable
- I want the rational minds in this group to have someone to vote for.†
Chpt 8
- But his rational self was struggling in a torrent of anger, bitter and self-righteous.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(rational as in: rational behavior) reasonable, able to think clearly, or based on logic rather than emotion
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(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.