Homonymous are those which are called by the same name, used in a different sense or with a different definition or rational explanation.
Of white man, you may give a rational explanation and a definition; but it will apply in a different manner to white and to the essence of man (b.
There was first a period of spontaneous and unreflective Theism, in which man felt the consciousness of God, but could not or did not attempt a rational explanation of his instinctive faith.
First Principles which, being assumed, shall furnish a rational explanation of all phenomena, of all becoming?
Those things which do not admit of rational explanation, are not knowable.
This every one learns to do, who is not dumb or an idiot: so that in this sense true opinion will always carry with it rational explanation.
When you say (continues Sokrates) that knowledge is true opinion coupled with rational explanation, you may mean by rational explanation one of three things.
Letters answer to the primordial elements of things; which are not matters either of knowledge, or of true opinion, or of rational explanation--but simply of sensible perception.
Assuming the distinction between knowledge and opinion, Theaetetus, in answer to Socrates, proceeds to define knowledge as true opinion, with definite or rational explanation.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rational explanation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
