Rationale
noun
The reason or logic behind a decision, action or belief.
The rationale behind his decision to move was to find a better job.
Often appears as...
- provide a rationale
- understand the rationale
noun
The reason or logic behind a decision, action or belief.
The rationale behind his decision to move was to find a better job.
Often appears as...
- provide a rationale
- understand the rationale
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Decision Making
Used when explaining thoughtful decisions, showing that they're not random.
The committee provided a rationale for choosing the winning design.
Pro Tip 2/3Understanding Actions
Helps clarify actions or beliefs that might otherwise be misunderstood.
He explained the rationale for his strict policy on attendance.
Pro Tip 3/3Arguing Point
Strengthens an argument or point of view by providing reasons.
She outlined her rationale for disagreeing with the proposed changes.
Pro Tip 1/3Decision Making
Used when explaining thoughtful decisions, showing that they're not random.
The committee provided a rationale for choosing the winning design.
Pro Tip 2/3Understanding Actions
Helps clarify actions or beliefs that might otherwise be misunderstood.
He explained the rationale for his strict policy on attendance.
Pro Tip 3/3Arguing Point
Strengthens an argument or point of view by providing reasons.
She outlined her rationale for disagreeing with the proposed changes.
Pro Tip 1/3Decision Making
Used when explaining thoughtful decisions, showing that they're not random.
The committee provided a rationale for choosing the winning design.
Pro Tip 2/3Understanding Actions
Helps clarify actions or beliefs that might otherwise be misunderstood.
He explained the rationale for his strict policy on attendance.
Pro Tip 3/3Arguing Point
Strengthens an argument or point of view by providing reasons.
She outlined her rationale for disagreeing with the proposed changes.
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Margaret Gould Stewart:...
Video creators really loved their ratings. Millions and millions of people were accustomed to the old design. So in order to help people prepare themselves for change and acclimate to the new design more quickly, we actually published the data graph sharing with the community the rationale for what we were going to do,
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Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...
From the point of view of a public health nerd, junkies are doing dumb things. The truth is that everyone has a different rationale. There are as many different ways of being rational as there are human beings on the planet, and that's one of the glories of human existence. But those ways of being rational
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Science can answer moral...
And hundreds of thousands of children, incidentally, are subjected to this every year. The locations of these enlightened districts, I think, will fail to surprise you. We're not talking about Connecticut. And the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious. The creator of the universe himself
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Our buggy moral code PIPE...
dollars you would expect it as the probability of being caught goes down people would cheat more but again this was not the case again a lot of people cheated by just by a little bit and then unhhhh sensitive to these economic incentives so we said if people are not sensitive to the economic rationale
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Our buggy moral code -...
people would cheat more but again this was not the case again a lot of people cheated by just by a little bit and they were uncensored to these economic consent so we said if people are not sensitive to the economic rationale theory explanations to these forces what could
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How to fix a broken...
deepening your emotional pain and complicating your recovery. Getting over heartbreak is not a journey. It's a fight, and your reason is your strongest weapon. There is no breakup explanation that's going to feel satisfying. No rationale can take away the pain you feel.
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Who determines the...
rationale behind the decision making process so that's really great right but what about bias what happens when we talk about bias who here in this room would purport to be biased raise your hand that's great it's everyone and it's inevitable that humans are all biased
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Ricardo Semler: Radical...
And with this rationale, I look at these days and I think, I'm not retired. I don't feel retired at all. And so I'm writing a new book. We started three new companies in the last two years. I'm now working on getting this school system for free out into the world,
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Science can answer moral...
locations of these enlightened districts I think will fail to surprise you we're not talking about Connecticut and the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious the creator of the universe himself has told us not to
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Tracking Plastic Sea to...
beautifully put forward by a hundred ways now let's talk about the brain for a little bit the rationale so why do we need to protect anything right and then how much
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Margaret Gould Stewart:...
Video creators really loved their ratings. Millions and millions of people were accustomed to the old design. So in order to help people prepare themselves for change and acclimate to the new design more quickly, we actually published the data graph sharing with the community the rationale for what we were going to do,
Video examples
Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...
From the point of view of a public health nerd, junkies are doing dumb things. The truth is that everyone has a different rationale. There are as many different ways of being rational as there are human beings on the planet, and that's one of the glories of human existence. But those ways of being rational
Video examples
Science can answer moral...
And hundreds of thousands of children, incidentally, are subjected to this every year. The locations of these enlightened districts, I think, will fail to surprise you. We're not talking about Connecticut. And the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious. The creator of the universe himself
Video examples
Our buggy moral code PIPE...
dollars you would expect it as the probability of being caught goes down people would cheat more but again this was not the case again a lot of people cheated by just by a little bit and then unhhhh sensitive to these economic incentives so we said if people are not sensitive to the economic rationale
Video examples
Our buggy moral code -...
people would cheat more but again this was not the case again a lot of people cheated by just by a little bit and they were uncensored to these economic consent so we said if people are not sensitive to the economic rationale theory explanations to these forces what could
Video examples
How to fix a broken...
deepening your emotional pain and complicating your recovery. Getting over heartbreak is not a journey. It's a fight, and your reason is your strongest weapon. There is no breakup explanation that's going to feel satisfying. No rationale can take away the pain you feel.
Video examples
Who determines the...
rationale behind the decision making process so that's really great right but what about bias what happens when we talk about bias who here in this room would purport to be biased raise your hand that's great it's everyone and it's inevitable that humans are all biased
Video examples
Ricardo Semler: Radical...
And with this rationale, I look at these days and I think, I'm not retired. I don't feel retired at all. And so I'm writing a new book. We started three new companies in the last two years. I'm now working on getting this school system for free out into the world,
Video examples
Science can answer moral...
locations of these enlightened districts I think will fail to surprise you we're not talking about Connecticut and the rationale for this behavior is explicitly religious the creator of the universe himself has told us not to
Video examples
Tracking Plastic Sea to...
beautifully put forward by a hundred ways now let's talk about the brain for a little bit the rationale so why do we need to protect anything right and then how much
Example 1 of 10
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Francis Fukuyama
American Economist
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
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Imran Amed
Canadian Editor
When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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Olympia Snowe
American Politician
When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.
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Jared Harris
British Actor
People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
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Chrysippus
Greek Philosopher
Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.
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J. D. Vance
American Author
We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
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Richard Attenborough
English Actor
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
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Sebastian Junger
American Author
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
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Francis Fukuyama
American Economist
The rationale for tenure is still valid. But the system has turned the academy into one of the most conservative and costly institutions in the country. Yes, conservative: Economists joke that their discipline advances one funeral at a time, but many fields must wait for wholesale generational turnover before new approaches take hold.
Quote examples
Imran Amed
Canadian Editor
When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
Quote examples
Olympia Snowe
American Politician
When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.
Quote examples
Jared Harris
British Actor
People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
Quote examples
Chrysippus
Greek Philosopher
Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
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James B. Stewart
American Journalist
The rationale for eliminating the alternative minimum tax is that such a backup system should not be necessary if the tax code is fundamentally fair and eliminates all the loopholes that made it possible for high-income taxpayers to escape taxation in the first place.
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J. D. Vance
American Author
We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.
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Nathan Myhrvold
American Businessman
Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
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Richard Attenborough
English Actor
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant - that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, an argument and so on - and I can't do that, and I'm not in that bracket at all.
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Sebastian Junger
American Author
I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.
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