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rationality

[rash-uh-nal-i-tee] / ˌræʃ əˈnæl ɪ ti /




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"These rules lack humanity and rationality, and they oppress us every day."

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

But the choice isn’t between full rationality and pure sentimentality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

We comfort the comfortable, and we look for hope in norms and in institutions and in rationality.

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2025

This work challenges long-held assumptions that rationality, defined as forming and updating beliefs based on evidence, belongs only to humans.

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2025

They raise the antenna too high, broadcast for too many minutes, assume the world offers safety and rationality when of course it does not.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr




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