Rationally

  • 131piecemeal social engineering — In The Poverty of Historicism (1957), the philosopher Sir Karl Popper criticized historicist (notably communist and fascist ) attempts to foretell the future, and argued that the holistic social experiments based on these theories were doomed to… …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 132rational — [[t]ræ̱ʃənəl[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Rational decisions and thoughts are based on reason rather than on emotion. He s asking you to look at both sides of the case and come to a rational decision... Mary was able to short circuit her stress… …

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