rationality
Example Sentences
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It’s the second factor that often keeps takeover bids alive long after the proposed deals lose their economic rationality.
From Los Angeles Times
There’s some discussion of how mere rationality gets you only so far.
This work challenges long-held assumptions that rationality, defined as forming and updating beliefs based on evidence, belongs only to humans.
From Science Daily
“Schoolteachers who bash into our heads that evolution has no rationality often completely ignore the fact that, in the long run, nature’s creations are indistinguishable from rational designs,” the neuroscientist observes.
Tylor and Robertson Smith agreed, however, that what Tylor called the “essential rationality of primitive peoples” linked the savage past and the civilized present.
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