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Rationalize   Listen
verb
Rationalize  v. t.  
1.
To make rational; also, to convert to rationalism.
2.
To interpret in the manner of a rationalist.
3.
To form a rational conception of.
4.
(Alg.) To render rational; to free from radical signs or quantities.





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"Rationalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the same process, which involved riots in Lodz, fighting at Libau, wild disorder at Odessa, remote colossal battlings in Manchuria, the obscure movements of a disastrous fleet lost somewhere now in the Indian seas, steaming clumsily to its fate, he was trying to rationalize it all in his mind, to comprehend its direction. He was struggling strenuously with the obscurities of the language in which these things were being discussed about him, a most difficult language demanding new ...
— The Research Magnificent • H. G. Wells
... D. H. Cole, Social Theory, p. 142.] Coercion is the surd in almost all social theory, except the Machiavellian. The temptation to ignore it, because it is absurd, inexpressible, and unmanageable, becomes overwhelming in any man who is trying to rationalize human life. ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann
... logic as to supersede more and more the older classificatory conceptions. There are many conceptual systems of this sort; and the sense manifold is also such a system. Find a one-to-one relation for your sense-impressions ANYWHERE among the concepts, and in so far forth you rationalize the impressions. But obviously you can rationalize them by ...
— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James
... himself. To us it seems that he was only trying to exalt the power of the Holy Spirit, a pious action at the least but to the episcopal and monastic conservators of the faith he seems to have been guilty of trying to rationalize an unsolvable mystery, to find an intellectual solution forbidden to man. In some obscure way the question seems to be involved in that other of the function of the Blessed Virgin as the fount of mercy and compassion, and at this time when the cult of the Mother of God had reached its highest ...
— Historia Calamitatum • Peter Abelard


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