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41rational — ra·ti·o·na̲l [ratsi̯o ] Adj; vom Verstand und nicht von Gefühlen geleitet ↔ irrational, emotional <rational denken, handeln; ein rational denkender Typ sein>: eine rationale Entscheidung fällen || hierzu Ra·ti·o·na·lịs·mus der; ; nur Sg;… …
42rational — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sound, sane, logical, sensible, reasonable. See reasoning, intellect, sanity.Ant., irrational, insane. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Acting in accordance with reason] Syn. reasonable, logical, sensible …
43rational — adj. 1 of or based on reasoning or reason. 2 sensible, sane, moderate; not foolish or absurd or extreme. 3 endowed with reason, reasoning. 4 rejecting what is unreasonable or cannot be tested by reason in religion or custom. 5 Math. (of a… …
44rational — See rational, rationale …
45rational — , rationale The first means sensible or sound ( a rational decision ); the second describes a justification ( the rationale for his actions ) …
46rational — agreeing with a prejudice Literally, using logic or reason. The language of a bigot: A rational debate for their purposes is one which reached the approved conclusions. (Daily Telegraph, 26 June 2001) …
47Rational Software — Rational Machines was founded by Paul Levy and Mike Devlin in 1981 to provide tools to expand the use of modern software engineering practices, particularly explicit modular architecture and iterative development. Rational was sold for US$2.1… …
48Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy — (REBT) is a comprehensive, active directive, philosophically and empirically based psychotherapy which focuses on resolving emotional and behavioral problems and disturbances and enabling people to lead happier and more fulfilling lives. REBT was …
49Rational expectations — is an assumption used in many contemporary macroeconomic models, and also in other areas of contemporary economics and game theory and in other applications of rational choice theory. Since most macroeconomic models today study decisions over… …
50Rational egoism — is the thesis that the pursuit of one s own self interest is always rational. [Baier (1990), p. 201; Gert (1998), p. 69; Shaver (2002), §3; Moseley (2006), §2.] The view is a normative form of egoism. However, it is different from other forms of… …
