Competence vs Arational - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The quality or state of being competent, i.e. able or suitable for a general role.
* 2005 , Lies Sercu and Ewa Bandura, Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence: An International Investigation :
(countable) The quality or state of being able or suitable for a particular task; the quality or state of being competent for a particular task.
* 1961 , National Council for Elementary Science (U.S.), Science Education :
A sustainable income.
* Alexander Pope
* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 17
(countable) In law, the legal authority to deal with a matter.
(chiefly, philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; not rational, outside the competence of the rules of reason.
* 1938 , Marten Ten Hoor, "The Philistines over Philosophy," The Journal of Philosophy , vol. 35, no. 20, p. 542:
* 1974 , , "Why Should I Believe in Science?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. 34, no. 4, p. 484:
*1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 146:
*:Regarded with the objectivity of hindsight, the illusion appears arational , almost fantastic: it would be like being able both to lie and to trust other people at the same time.
* 2001 , Ronald De Sousa, "Moral Emotions," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice , vol. 4, no. 2, p. 109:
As a noun competence
is skill.As an adjective arational is
(chiefly|philosophy) not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; not rational, outside the competence of the rules of reason.competence
English
Noun
- Teachers are now required to teach intercultural communicative competence .
- What professional competences do science teachers need?
- Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, / Lie in three words — health, peace, and competence .
- “money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it. Beyond a competence , it can afford no real satisfaction, as far as mere self is concerned.”
- That question is out with the competence of this court and must be taken to a higher court.
Synonyms
* ability * competency * nous * savoir-faire * knack (colloq.) * aptitude * See alsoAntonyms
* inability * ineptitude * incompetenceReferences
*arational
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- If the end-product of a man's philosophizing about the nature of the cosmos is the ultimate, arational matter, this will affect his moral opinion of the cosmos.
- Scientific knowledge is conceptual, rational, and testable. Mystical knowledge is usually aconceptual, arational , and does not lend itself to interpersonal testing.
- On the first view, emotions are purely biological phenomena. . . . They are arational and amoral, like other natural bodily functions.