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Rationality : Social and Cultural Anthropology
552 words, approx. 2 pages
Rationality and its cognates (rational, reason, reasonableness), are, in anthropology, usually ascribed to ideas or thought (‘magic is irrational, science is rational’), to action (‘cloud-seeding is rational, rain dance is...
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Rationality : Adult and Continuing Education
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The use of reason or logic to think out a problem. The fact that a solution is rational does not mean that it is either correct or the only possible solution to a problem. See also instrumentalism, technical...
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Rationality Summary
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Rationality Philosophers have, at least characteristically, aspired to possess "rationality" but have not thereby sought exactly the same thing. Portrayed vaguely, rationality is reasonableness, but not all philosophers take rationality...
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Rationality Information
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Rationality as a term is related to the idea of reason, a word which following Webster's may be derived as much from older terms referring to thinking itself as from giving an account or an explanation. This lends the term a dual aspect. One aspect...


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Business and Economic Review
Rational Rationing
07/01/2007: 1,376 words, approx. 5 pages
"The secret in the American health care system is that we also ration care." I'm letting you in on a health care secret. Bubbling just below the surface in the discussions about rising health care costs and health care reform is the R-word:...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Rational rations
04/30/2003: 946 words, approx. 3 pages
Rational rations What does it take to feed an army? By EDYTHE PREET Wednesday, April 30, 2003 When I was a child, one of my favorite meals was what my father sometimes made for Saturday breakfast and called "s--- on...
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Iranian leaders defend fuel rationing
7/1/2007: 393 words, approx. 1 pages
Iran's top leaders defended a new fuel rationing plan Saturday that sparked violence earlier this week, saying it will free up funding for development projects and make the country "invincible," state-run television reported.The government began fuel rationing Wednesday, driving angry Iranians to smash shop windows...
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Myanmar quashes fuel ration cut rumors
1/1/2008: 291 words, approx. 1 pages
Myanmar's ruling military, apparently wary of igniting another outbreak of mass demonstrations, tried to quash rumors Tuesday that fuel rations would be slashed in the face of rising global oil prices.A sudden hike in fuel prices last year led to protests that ballooned into anti-government...
 


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Rationality in Humans
994 words, approx. 3 pages
Questions if humans are truly rational animals. Includes examples and thoughts of Freud, Nietzsche, and Darwin.


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