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rationalize | logic |

As a verb rationalize

is to make something rational or more rational.

As an adjective logic is

logical.

rationalize

English

(wikipedia rationalize)

Alternative forms

* (l) (UK et al)

Verb

(rationaliz)
  • To make something rational or more rational.
  • To justify an immoral act, or illogical behaviour. “The process of thought by which one justifies a discreditable act, and by which one offers to oneself and the world a better motive for one's action than the true motive”
  • (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
  • To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles.

    • Derived terms

    * (l), (l)

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    Anagrams

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    logic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * logick (archaic)

    Adjective

  • logical

    • Noun

    (wikipedia logic)
  • (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
  • (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
  • * 2001 , Mark Sainsbury, Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition , Blackwell Publishing, p. 9
    • An old tradition has it that there are two branches of logic: deductive logic and inductive logic. More recently, the differences between these disciplines have become so marked that most people nowadays use "logic" to mean deductive logic, reserving terms like "confirmation theory" for at least some of what used to be called inductive logic. I shall follow the more recent practice, and shall construe "philosophy of logic" as "philosophy of deductive logic".
  • (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of proof of statements.
  • (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
  • (uncountable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
    • It's hard to work out his system of logic .
  • (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
    • Fred is designing the logic for the new controller.

    Synonyms

    * formal logic, modern logic * formal system * (philosophy ): predicate logic

    Related terms

    * logician * logical

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * Aristotelian logic * Boolean logic * chop logic * combinational logic * computability logic * deontic logic * diode logic * diode-transistor logic * first-order logic * formal logic * fuzzy logic * intensional logic * interpretability logic * intuitionistic logic * logic chopper * many-sorted logic * material logic * mathematical logic * modal logic * modern logic * multi-valued logic * negative logic * non-Aristotelian logic * philosophical logic * positive logic * predicate logic * propositional logic * provability logic * resistor-transistor logic * sequential logic * symbolic logic * traditional logic * transistor-transistor logic

    Verb

  • (pejorative) To engage in excessive or inappropriate application of logic.
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  • To apply logical reasoning to.
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  • To overcome by logical argument.
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