Definition of Rationalizable

1. Adjective. That can be rationalized ¹

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Definition of Rationalizable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rationalizable

rationalise
rationalise away
rationalised
rationalises
rationalising
rationalism
rationalisms
rationalist
rationalistic
rationalistical
rationalistically
rationalists
rationalities
rationality
rationalizability
rationalizable (current term)
rationalization
rationalizations
rationalize
rationalize away
rationalized
rationalizer
rationalizers
rationalizes
rationalizing
rationall
rationally
rationalness
rationalnesses
rationals

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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