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Meanings of rational in English
Consistent with or based on or using reason.
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Examples for "intellectual"
Examples for "intellectual"
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This intellectual view of society inevitably extended far beyond any individual experience.
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Children need to drink plenty of water to meet their intellectual potential.
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However, I think the spiritual and intellectual benefits far outweighed the disadvantages.
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And she's worried about the threat to intellectual political thought and debate.
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He said most countries were worried about their intellectual property in China.
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Our understanding of much in the world is more poetic than noetic.
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Disjunction, of course, being a purely physical levorotation through the dense manifold, devoid of noetic efficacy at-
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Empiricism on the other hand is satisfied with the type of noetic unity that is humanly familiar.
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It is a sort of mental equivalent for them, their epistemological function, their value in noetic terms.
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These hours have for us a noetic value-"someveil did fall"-revealingvisions remembered even unto the hour of death.
Usage of rational in English
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Clear and agreed policies help a funding organisation make objective, rational decisions.
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Beyond these basic points, however, many dissidents part company with rational analysis.
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It was not rational; Apollo had certainly not given rise to it.
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It's rational, we say, because return on investment is our highest good.
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Conclusions: More rational psychopharmacological treatments for severe self-injurious behaviour may become available.
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But perhaps the anti-campylobacter message has been far too safe and rational.
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He said there was only one rational explanation for 1080's continued use.
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There is no possible rational mechanism as to how it might work.
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Asset prices often do strange things in ways that defy rational explanation.
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These claims have no place in a rational discussion of our future.
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Therefore prudence is in the appetitive rather than in the rational faculty.
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How should the rational investor take on board the situation in Iran?
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These people should be addressed on as rational a level as possible.
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The universe is in its nature rational; Thought and Being are one.
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There is no rational connection in the sequence of images and ideas.
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The idea of a juster and more rational social state pleased him.
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