Rule vs Arational - What's the difference?
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A regulation, law, guideline.
* Tillotson
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, title= A ruler; device for measuring, a straightedge, a measure.
* South
A straight line , especially one lying across a paper as a guide for writing.
A regulating principle.
* c. 1604, William Shakespeare, All's well that ends well , Act I, scene I:
The act of ruling; administration of law; government; empire; authority; control.
* Bible, Hebrews xiii. 17
* Alexander Pope
A normal condition or state of affairs.
(obsolete) Conduct; behaviour.
* Shakespeare
(legal) An order regulating the practice of the courts, or an order made between parties to an action or a suit.
(math) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
(printing, dated) A thin plate of brass or other metal, of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work.
To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over.
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, title= (slang) To excel.
To mark (paper or the like) with (lines).
To decide judicially.
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, title= To establish or settle by, or as by, a rule; to fix by universal or general consent, or by common practice.
* Atterbury
(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 verb rule
is .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.rule
English
Noun
(en noun)- We profess to have embraced a religion which contains the most exact rules for the government of our lives.
T time, passage=The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them
- A judicious artist will use his eye, but he will trust only to his rule .
- There's little can be said in 't; 'Tis against the rule of nature.
- Obey them that have the rule over you.
- His stern rule the groaning land obeyed.
- My rule is to rise at six o'clock.
- This uncivil rule ; she shall know of it.
- (Wharton)
- a rule for extracting the cube root
Derived terms
* exception that proves the rule * golden rule * rule of action * rule of law * rule of thumb * silver rule * slide rule * there is an exception to every ruleVerb
(rul)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
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US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
- That's a ruled case with the schoolmen.
Synonyms
* (to excel) rock (also slang)Antonyms
* (to excel) suck (vulgar slang)Derived terms
* Rule Britannia * rule on * rule out * rule the roost * the hand that rocks the cradle rules the worldExternal links
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* 1000 English basic words ----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.