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Is it reasonable not to have a second pint?
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rationale
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rationale \Ra`tion*a"le\ (r[a^]sh`[u^]*n[a^]l" or r[a^]sh`[u^]n*[=a]"l[-e]), n. [L. rationalis, neut. rationale. See Rational , a.] An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or the like; also, the principles ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE economic ▪ The economic rationale , in terms of economic efficiency, was agreed in terms of increasing competitiveness, rather than the change of ownership. ▪ There was nothing new about this economic rationale ...
Usage examples of rationale.
For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.
This is a very clear exposition of the rationale for morphological dating.
That was the rationale behind early parthenogenesis experiments on Herlandiaattempting to cull masculinity from the human process entirely.
While the rationale of the she-male may seem to be nothing more than a transparent attempt at rationalization, upon closer examination it reveals an interesting form of transvestic metaphysics.
All Carter and Bogdanovich did was to apply that rationale to the astrogation charts.
Religions of high complexity of feeling and rationale, forms of architecture, conceived in the spirit of that religion and put into its service, lyric poetry, pictorial art, sculpture, music, orders of nobility, orders of priesthood, stylized dwellings, stylized manners and dress, rigid training of the young up to these developments to perpetuate them, systems of philosophy, of mathematics, of knowledge, of nature, prodigious technical methods, giant battles, huge armies, prolonged wars, energetic economics to support this whole multifarious structure, intricately organized governments to infuse order into the nations created by the higher being acting on the different types of human materialthese are some of the floraison of forms which appear in these two areas.
A similar rationale determined that subjects would introspectively focus on simple perceptual stimuli, for Wundt believed that more complex mental phenomena, such as thoughts, volitions, and feelings, were not sufficiently amenable to experimental control to be objects of scientific inner perception.
The men returned to their tanks with orders, not encouragement or rationale.
Infanticide was practised by many early cultures, with the rationale of preserving the best of the species.
Although it requires some mathematical background to appreciate fully, as we indicated in Chapter 5, there is a similar rationale behind the gauge symmetries underlying the three nongravitational forces.
Juan thoroughly explained to me the principles, rationales, and practices of the art of dreaming.
The rationale for the containments and the fences around the badlands was that they prevented the spread of toxins and radioactive contamination.
The reason they do so is one of history: they started out as true cladists, and kept some of the methods of cladists while abandoning their fundamental philosophy and rationale.
For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.
His rationale was clearly the same as Lande's, when he said: 'The two characteristics affected by such a process, namely plumage development in the male, and sexual preference for such developments in the female, must thus advance together, and so long as the process is unchecked by severe counterselection, will advance with ever-increasing speed.