Rational vs Antirational - What's the difference?
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Capable of reasoning.
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Logically sound; not contradictory or otherwise absurd.
(label) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
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, title= Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
Of an algebraic expression, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
(label) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; said of formulae.
(mathematics) A rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.
A rational being.
Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.
* 1839 November, “G.E.E.”, “Article III — and General Review , Volume XXVII, Number II,
* 1995 , Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical , Penn State Press, ISBN 978-0-271-01441-8,
* 2009 , Eugene Webb, Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development , University of Missouri Press, ISBN 978-0-8262-1833-9,
As adjectives the difference between rational and antirational
is that rational is capable of reasoning while antirational is lacking or especially opposed to reason and rational thought.As a noun rational
is a rational number: a number that can be expressed as the quotient of two integers.rational
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Alternative forms
* rationall (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) rationel, rational, from (etyl)Adjective
(en adjective)Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- ¾ is a rational number, but ?2 is an irrational number.
Antonyms
* (reasonable) absurd, irrational, nonsensical * (capable of reasoning) arational, irrational, non-rational * (number theory) irrationalEtymology 2
From (etyl) rational, from , for which see the first etymology.Noun
(en noun)- The quotient of two rationals''' is again a '''rational .
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References
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Adjective
(en adjective)pages 196-197:
- This view is further illustrated by bringing forward the Catholic doctrines, showing the “antirational notion of them,”(apparent misquotation) and thus exhibiting “the mysterious bearings and incomplete character of the Revelation.”
page 328:
- Rand refused to detach even a seemingly radical rebellion from the social totality in which it emerged. The New Left was as much an outgrowth of the antirational as the culture it had rejected.
page 61:
- His own conception of a genuine (fifth order) postmodernism is not at all antirational and embraces everything that was a source of real strength in the fourth (“modern”) order of consciousness.