rationality

rational | American Dictionary

rational
adjective
us/ˈræʃ·ə·nəl/
showing clear thought or reason:
a rational decision
Obviously, he wasn’t rational.

rationally

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈræʃ·ə·nəl·i/
It’s hard to behave rationally at such times.

Examples of rational

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If a player's type can be made common knowledge, rational egoists would not survive.
Bayesian analysis provides a rational basis for the qualitative form of set-theoretic models of similarity.
We do not simply, through being rational and knowing ordinary language, 'know' the meaning of all necessary moral words.
Analogously to the previous example, these constraints can be represented by rational relations.
Designers are rational agents trained to follow rational methods.
In order for cooperation to be rational, participants must have a certain degree of confidence in each other's competence to complete their assigned tasks.
Because of this strategic time-inconsistency, rational, self-interested agents are unlikely to profit from mutually advantageous bargains.
Then although it is highly unlikely that your ticket is the winner, this cannot make it rational to accept that your ticket won't win.
I can be perfectly rational in believing that my faculty of vision is keener than my companions.
In addition to problems of detail in working out a perfectly rational code, there is a problem of principle.
Preferences are rational when they are, in a precise sense, consistent.
Lowering prices just enough to empty the stock of resources seems more rational.
He argues that indeterminacy of rational choice is the result of either indifference or incommensurability of the options.
An expert regime is concerned with statistical precision and rational modeling.
More precisely, suppose that p/q is a rational number, and we search for a continued fraction representation for it.
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