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Based on reason or logic
Answer for the clue "Based on reason or logic ", 8 letters:
rational
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Rational may refer to: Rational number , a number that can be expressed as a ratio of two integers Rational point of an algebraic variety, a point defined over the rational numbers Rational Software , a software company now owned by IBM Tenberry Software ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "pertaining to reason;" mid-15c., "endowed with reason," from Old French racionel and directly from Latin rationalis "of or belonging to reason, reasonable," from ratio (genitive rationis ) "reckoning, calculation, reason" (see ratio ).
Usage examples of rational.
So, too, if man is defined as a rational animal, the judgment that men have reason is analytically true.
A specific antibody used against a specific virus should have destroyed the virus or slowed its progress, and there seemed to be no rational explanation for the dreadful response of the uninfected ones who had been inoculated for protection.
For the flesh would not have been assumable, except by its relation to the rational soul, through which it becomes human flesh.
The human flesh is assumable by the Word on account of the order which it has to the rational soul as to its proper form.
Much of this chapter is devoted to straightening out our thinking, both as a rational process and as an attitudinal process.
His face was white and strained, with blotchy patches of colour, but he seemed entirely rational.
The Extrality Commission, however, reached the expected conclusion that China must make progress toward rational judicial and governmental procedures before extrality could be yielded.
Each of these actors made rational decisions to participate in the malling of America.
Its magic for us is the magic that our culture has systematically marginalized in the rational, scientific, secular, and bureaucratic disenchantment of the world.
Rational despotism--that is, selective despotism--is always a curse to mankind, because with that you have the ordinary man misunderstood and misgoverned by some prig who has no brotherly respect for him at all.
Or perhaps will regard them more as the playsome whimsies of monkies in human shape, than the serious, positive, dogmatical asseverations of a being, who dignifies himself with the name of rational.
Moreover, he deemed it wise and rational to see, face to face, the eminent men in England, with whom, if he fulfilled his promise to De Montaigne, he was to run the race of honourable rivalry.
The inevitable result of this rational pursuit of individual advantage had been the overgrazing and ultimate destruction of the commons.
It could not be denied that a state of abundant accommodation was better than the contrary, but this consideration, though in the most rational estimate, of some weight, she was not so depraved and effeminate as to allow to overweigh the opposite evils.
For grace is a certain partaking of the Godhead by the rational creature, according to 2 Pet.