Long have they feared the advent of that era which will hail the dawn of rationality and advancement.
Wherever there seemed to be a spark of primitive rationality the Earthmen had stayed and patiently taught the Rational Potential of being, which they had learned for themselves only after such bloodshed.
The Earthmen had wasted centuries trying to undo their own evolved rationality before they realized it could not be done.
Rationality (Swift's Houyhnhms having not been as yet discovered) often does sufficiently mark out the objects denoted.
But the rationality of the will implies that it must aim at nothing less than the harmonious articulation of its whole activity in the unity of self-consciousness.
Hedonism vindicates its rationality only on conditions which imply the futility of action altogether.
But do you keep only, sir, the symbols of this prehistoric sanity, this childishrationality of the earth?
The fundamental theorem in regard to the rationality group.
This is the group called the rationality group, or the group of transformations of the original homogeneous linear differential equation.
The importance of the rationality group consists in three propositions.
If there is no real distinction between the determining and the determined thought-object, the mode is called a metaphysical mode: as rationality is of animality in man.
Now this instinct is the instinct of rationality itself.
Which is equivalent to denying the rationality of the belief that the soul of each one of us is immortal.
But on my suggesting that the injured person is equally subjected to risk, he fairly owned he could not explain the rationality of duelling.
It might be interpreted to mean that the result to be practically sought is simply the development of the rationality of all rational beings--such as men--whom we find to be as yet imperfectly rational.
And they saw no other way of guaranteeing a complete rationality than in holding to a theistic philosophy.
Is there any measure of the degree of rationality of the social will itself?
But the doctrine, taken generally, does seem in harmony with the test of rationality developed above.
The attainment of perfectrationality in this sense is an ideal never completely realized.
And in deciding whether the ends he chooses are rational or not, we proceed just as we do in judging the rationalityof his individual choices.
We have seen in the chapter on "Rationality and Will," that we cannot consider a man rational unless his choices are harmonized and converge upon some comprehensive end.
But why should we limit ourselves to the standpoint of the individual, in judging of the rationality of ends?
He claims that rationality tends to bring about a certain unity or harmony.
In each case, we are concerned with the work of reason, and judgments as to rationality and irrationality are equally in place.
Here it is enough to point out that men do not actually limit the notion of rationality in this way.
Maybe she had just confirmed that still, small voice of rationality lecturing me from the back of my mind.
His eyes had grown puzzled, as though he wanted to believe she was returning to rationality but his common sense was telling him it wasn't true.
He was pointing, his rationality beginning to fail.
Its logic consists in having confidence in the rationality of the moral consciousness and its desires.
The basis of the belief in future judgment is that deep conviction of the rationality of the world-order, or, in religious language, of the wisdom and justice of God, which we cannot and will not surrender.
Providence to supply to the Church what had never before been produced, writers who do "full honour at once to the elevation and the rationality of Christian piety.
Likewise, to say that a rational animal is capable of conversation, is all one as to say a man; but no one will say that rationality is capable of conversation, because it makes not the whole essence to which we give the name man.
The theory of rationality leaves this question conveniently and carefully unanswered.
The theory of rationality is the one at present accepted in political science.
But in the meantime, living here and now, being practical, understanding the rationality and the necessity of the division of labour, I accept servants.
All that I did was to put the fear of death in the hearts of the few that sat in the high places and obstructed the coming of rationality and laughter.
Supposing that the greatest possiblerationality were given to mankind, this certainly would not guarantee the longest possible existence for them!
Their manner of honouring their parents and children, the rationality of their marriages and marriage customs, distinguishes them amongst all Europeans.
We call rationality the distinction of man, when compared with other animals.
From such sensuous beginnings, it is pretended, a language might have grown up, gradually and slowly, indeed, to the height of rationality and grammatic form and order.
We can now return to the question that led us to this discussion, to the question of the rationality of our reality.
However, notwithstanding all the glossing over, the real state of things must ultimately assert itself: pessimism must then be the last word, and the belief in a rationality in human existence must finally be given up.
The former places man in the midst of the world, and requires him energetically to take up the struggle for the cause of rationality and decisively to reject the irrational.
Kant had already taught that the acts of men were to become gradually permeated by a spirit of rationalitytill there should be an equation of inner freedom of mind and outer freedom of action.
The situation as a whole has a rationality which resides in the distinctions, identities, phases of emphasis, and discriminations of the total experience.
Taken in this sense, rationalityis present in all experience.
Thinking or rationality is not limited to the process of abstract cognition, but it includes feeling and will, and in the course of its development carries these along with it.
Rationality expresses itself in the organized system of experience, not in particular elements and their 'pointings.
Rationality is more and more integrated in the technology; thus it is rationalized away from the process of individual self-constitution.
Rationality is connected to efficiency insofar as it is applied in the selection of means appropriate to accomplishing goals; or it serves as an instrument for evaluation of the premises leading to a selected course of action.
The confusing rationality of ever- increasing choices is matched by the frustrating realization that value options literally disappear, leaving no room for sensible reasoning.
Individuals do not have to think, they have to integrate themselves into the program embodying high efficiency rationality and reason.
When the body, or parts of it, became a goal in itself, the rationality of physical fitness for survival is contradicted by the irrationality of fitness for reasons other than individual and communal well-being.
In fact, the rationality associated with language, and expressed with its help, is only a small part of the potential human rationality.
Before considering alternative ways to define thinking and the relation between rationality and human reason, let us look at the characteristics of thinking in current praxis, science and philosophy included.
With the culture of artifacts, to which tools belong, reason and rationality took separate paths.
To understand how some biological characteristics improved chances of survival means to understand the rationality of the body.
Rationality formed the foundation of legality; the state ascertained priority over individuals-a very direct reflection of its literate nature.
Enough rationality remained in the major to spur his pride.
But though they had lost the complete rationality that would have bidden them lie quiet all day, and trek only at night, they still remembered the pact of the mirages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rationality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
