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Rationale   /rˌæʃənˈæl/   Listen
Rationale

noun
1.
(law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature).  Synonym: principle.  "The principles of internal-combustion engines"






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"Rationale" Quotes from Famous Books



... greater number of minor mental inefficiencies the psychanalyst puts down to handicaps in the unconscious. Again he mistakes figurative imagery for explanations. The conception of endocrine diversity in the make-up supplies us with the rationale of the vast majority of organic and functional defects and inferiorities, in short, subnormalities of any ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... theory and principles of the contract of insurance, to give its history, and to deduce from its rationale and the facts the developments of which this contract is capable, and the various useful applications possible in the present state of commercial and ...
— The Philosophy of Misery • Joseph-Pierre Proudhon

... Vision" is the title of a small pamphlet written by a frequent contributor to this journal, Mr. C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY, in which he has "attempted to sketch out such modifications of the theory of double vision as appear to him to be entailed on the rationale of the stereoscope." The corroboration thus indirectly afforded to the principles of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy of Perception has induced MR. INGLEBY to dedicate his word to that distinguished metaphysician. The essay will, we have no doubt, be perused ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 • Various

... glass is to remain in the bath about eight or ten minutes. Now, is this bath applicable to all collodion, or only to that prepared by Mr. Thomas; and if the former, what is the rationale ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 • Various

... found by Joseph Moseley, with sufficient clearness; and it is charitable to assume that the Irish editor intended to observe the instructions of his precursor. He failed, it seems—but why? It would be useless to go in search of the rationale of a blunder. ...
— Notes & Queries No. 29, Saturday, May 18, 1850 • Various


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