rationality
Example Sentences
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"These rules lack humanity and rationality, and they oppress us every day."
From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026
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
Early modern Europe was sufficiently complex linguistically, politically and religiously—and sufficiently analytical—for its revival of Greco-Roman rationality to herald an era of modern critique.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025
“Something is knocking on the doors,” Theodora said in a tone of pure rationality.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
Vocabulary lists containing rationality
John Nash (1928-2015) Tribute List
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