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- He said to the class, 'Animals are not rational, only human beings are rational.'†
Chpt 2.12rational = reasonable
- He said to the class, 'Animals are not rational, only human beings are rational.'†
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- I said, 'Well, can you explain to me how we are rational, and animals are not rational?'†
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- I said, 'Well, can you explain to me how we are rational, and animals are not rational?'†
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- He had known cows and he had known militiamen, and for rationality he thought he'd take cows any day.†
Chpt 2.12 *rationality = use of reason
- If animals killed only for food — as they usually but not always did — then they were more rational than people.†
Chpt 2.12rational = reasonable
- What did that say about human rationality?†
Chpt 2.12rationality = use of reason
- The increasing segregation of the two ethnicities, and the ever-growing fear between them, which made violence, especially preemptive violence, a rational strategy for self-defense.†
Chpt 2.13rational = reasonable
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.