rationalness

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Noun
  • But as any game theorist will tell you, rationality is an assumption, not a guarantee.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • To inject greater rationality into the system, a unified budget took effect in 1969.
    Steve H. Hanke, Fortune, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Technology scales, but leadership coherence does not.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The team lacked coherence, direction, belief.
    George Caulkin, New York Times, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • If AlphaSpace converts even a fraction of those passive trackers into active, engaged researchers — people who might upgrade to Gold, stick around longer, open more tabs — the business logic writes itself.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 19 May 2026
  • In 1931, by turning logic on itself, Kurt Gödel proved a pair of theorems that transformed the landscape of knowledge and truth.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Sophisticated as chatbots’ responses may be, they are stitched together from statistical patterns in large datasets—an impressive trick but one that still falls short of the breadth and reliability in human-level clinical reasoning.
    Cody Cottier, Scientific American, 15 May 2026
  • Here’s the reasoning behind those picks.
    Tim Britton, New York Times, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • The underground man is someone who is cursed with ratiocination.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Dec. 2024
  • No ratiocination similar to Parker’s point system.
    WIRED, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2023
Noun
  • In one of its most demanding assignments of recent memory, the San Francisco Opera Chorus led by John Keene embodies one population after another — monkeys, undersea dwellers, gods and heavenly hangers-on — and does it with power and cogency.
    Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Nov. 2025
  • TikTok’s algorithm started swamping me with humanities grad students of varying cogency.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2025
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“Rationalness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rationalness. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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