All 8 Uses

rational
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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I'm a rational anarchist.†
Chpt 6

rational = reasonable
A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.†
Chpt 6
But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world....aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure.†
Chpt 6
Call him rational anarchist, for he's rational and he feels no loyalty to any government.†
Chpt 6
Call him rational anarchist, for he's rational and he feels no loyalty to any government.†
Chpt 6
Give a computer enough groups and a rational theory involving meanings or subjects for meanings, and it will eventually worry it out because meanings themselves will show patterns.†
Chpt 12 *
Like his vegetarianism, he did not let it keep him from being "rational."†
Chpt 12
The dead man is Thomas Jefferson—first of the rational anarchists, my boy, and one who once almost managed to slip over his non-system through the most beautiful rhetoric ever written.†
Chpt 14

Definitions:

(1) (rational as in: rational behavior)
reasonable, able to think clearly, or based on logic rather than emotion
(2) (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.