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rational - consistent with or based on or using reason; "rational behavior"; "a process of rational inference"; "rational thought" |
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irrational not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals"
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logical capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning; "a logical mind"
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reasonable,
sensible marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy"
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sane mentally healthy; free from mental disorder; "appears to be completely sane"
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coherent,
logical,
lucid sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs"
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demythologised,
demythologized having mythical elements removed
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intelligent,
reasoning,
thinking having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"
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reasonable,
sane marked by sound judgment; "sane nuclear policy"
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rational - capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers; "rational numbers" |
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irrational not consistent with or using reason; "irrational fears"; "irrational animals"
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ratio the relative magnitudes of two quantities (usually expressed as a quotient)
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math,
mathematics,
maths a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement
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rational - having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion); "a rational analysis" |
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intellectual appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
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