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Definition of Rationalizable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rationalizable
Literary usage of Rationalizable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Global Challenge and Local Response: Initiatives for Economic Regeneration by Walter B. Stöhr (1990)
"... often not yet fully rationalizable and consistent in scientific terms) rather
than mainly applying the results of consistent and rationalizable partial ..."
2. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings ... Annual Forum by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association, Conference of Charities (U.S., Conference of Charities (U.S.), National Conference of Social Work (U.S. (1921)
"That there is much in American life which, after having been imitated by the
eager immigrant, is hardly justifiable or "rationalizable," cannot be denied. ..."
3. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"That there is much in American life which, after having been imitated by the
eager immigrant, is hardly justifiable or " rationalizable," cannot be denied. ..."
4. Cultural Reality by Florian Znaniecki (1919)
"... one historical order as such, but on that of an imperfectly rationalizable
synthesis of the static order of things and the dynamic order of processes. ..."
5. The Development of Religion: A Study in Anthropology and Social Psychology by Irving King (1910)
"... convenience in describing the experience, and does not imply qualitatively
different sets of facts, one of which is rationalizable and one irrational or ..."
6. The Development of Religion: A Study in Anthropology and Social Psychology by Irving King (1910)
"... of the world of rational and rationalizable things and experiences to any
supernatural world is not to be stated in terms of ordinary knowledge. ..."
7. The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin (1997)
"riences, not even of those rational or rationalizable aspects that refer to the
plants, animals, and various minerals used by the peoples preceding us for ..."
8. Reason, Thought, and Language; Or, The Many and the One: A Revised System of by Douglas Macleane (1906)
"Every judgement, as we have seen (§ 27), is rationalizable through its ground.
But the statement of the ground turns the judgement into a syllogism. § 233. ..."
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