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She writes about replacing faith with pure scientific rationality.
"You're looking for rationality and logic in a system that does not provide that," he said.
Her job is to assess the economic rationality of the government's decision.

rationality | American Dictionary

rationality
noun[ U ]
us/ˌræʃ·əˈnæl·ɪ·t̬i/
the existence of reasons or intentions for a particular set of thoughts or actions; reason:
You have too much faith in rationality (= reason).

Examples of rationality

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In any case, there is a touch of arrogance to the view that a visiting scholar sees ' rationality ' where no one else sees it.
Is rationality really "bounded" by information processing constraints?
Heuristics should rather be tested against the other forms of applied rationality, not against utopian scientific models.
We have suggested that, for our eighteenth-century writers, the concept of rationality was less narrowly defined, and could encompass dispositions as well as actions.
Our results confirm that value rationality dominates in the decision-making about unfamiliar and constraining instruments.
This cannot be explained by orthodox game-theoretic rationality with backward induction.
They are favourably inclined towards "expressive rationality" and team motivation and call for new directions.
The neo-utilitarian construal of rationality extends only to instrumental or means+ends rationality.
In essence, the task is to assess the rationality, justification and general epistemic status of religion.
Behaviour cannot be explained easily by instrumental rationality alone; policy signals are relevant.
In the bearing rein debate, the emphasis on utility, precision, rationality, and the verity of scientific understanding functioned rhetorically as a distancing device.
But it replaced democracy with objectivity, promising that assessments of rationality would be based on universal laws rather than individual opinion.
Explaining the role of norms and rationality in codeswitching.
Some aspects of logic and norms of rationality are clearly not conventional. 26.
The claim developed here is that the engine driving linguistic code choices is rationality, a mechanism universally available to humans.
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