Rationality

(noun.) the quality of being consistent with or based on logic.

(noun.) the state of having good sense and sound judgment; 'his rationality may have been impaired'; 'he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions'.

整理:露丝

• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Which would turn out to have the more foresight in it--her rationality or Caleb's ardent generosity? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Taken as such a step or stage, its existence is proof of its complete rationality, for it is an integral element in the total, which is Reason. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• An individual becomes rational only as he absorbs into himself the content of rationality in nature and in social institutions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Because rationality itself is a wilful exercise one hears Hymns to Reason and sees it personified as an extremely dignified goddess. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Finally, I shook the thing, hoping to recall it for a moment to rationality. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

整理:莫顿