What is "rationally"

Usage examples of "rationally".

Butts, namely, that, as a violent emotion caused by a sudden shock can kill or craze a human being, there is no perversion of the faculties, no prejudice, no change of taste or temper, no eccentricity, no antipathy, which such a cause may not rationally account for.

She gently took the persimmon plant away from the scissors, then turned to speak calmly and rationally to Sandy.

Even though don Juan had made me perceive indescribable features of the world, I could not consider my experiences to be anything beyond a play on my perception, a directed mirage of sorts that he had managed to make me undergo, either by means of psychotropic plants, or by means I could not deduce rationally.

Alva stopped, struggling to consider the new problem rationally-not that anyone ever had managed to explain the buddhi rationally.

The wide world he believed, had never, hitherto, given birth to a plan so sagaciously conceived, so rationally combined, so infallibly secure: yet it was fallen, crushed, rejected!

The book is, I believe, in harmony with the mood of the public at large in the world today, a mood which no longer unquestioningly accepts the pronouncements of established authorities, and is willing to listen with an open mind to heretics who make their case reasonably and rationally.

Abbas Amal, rationally and soberly swear that if I agree to the terms of the confidential plan being proposed, I will never publicly or privately reveal that Doyle Coldiron had anything to do with it, on my honor as an occasionally pious Muslim.

Economically and rationally, we should expect that the costlier a work of art is to produce and the narrower its market - the more emphasized its intellectual property rights.

I do have an imagination, but rationally, time travel is freakin' impossible!

The task at hand is how to start a collection of recordings which play ok outcomes to transactions, successes in terms of correct probability estimating, successes in terms of integrated actions which make sense, which are programmed by the Adult, and not by the Parent or Child, successes based on an ethic which can be supported rationally.

I, Abbas Amal, rationally and soberly swear that if I agree to the terms of the confidential plan being proposed, I will never publicly or privately reveal that Doyle Coldiron had anything to do with it, on my honor as an occasionally pious Muslim.

If tempers had gotten this heated before the balloting even began , what chance was there for things to proceed rationally, once the voting did start?

Rationally, Kim-ball knew the odds were he’d said his last good-byes to everybody except the crew of the Bonefish, and he’d probably never get the chance to say good-bye to them.

However, it is equally wrong to believe that because he coldly and rationally calculates the odds, he gets those calculations correct.

Rationally Taylor knew it was no more silent or noisy than it had been before Carde had popped in, but now that Taylor knew there was no one else in the building except for Mr.