English words for 'The capability for rational thought.'
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noun
- The capability for rational thought.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
adj
- having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
- endowed with the capacity to reason
- possessing sound knowledge
- exercising or showing good judgment
- Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
- Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
- (computing) Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
- Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
- Well thought-out, well considered.
noun
adj
noun
- thinking that is coherent and logical
- (uncountable) The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises, abstract thought, ratiocination; (countable) any instance of this, especially as a process leading to an action, motive.
- (countable) A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.
verb
adj
- Capable of reasoning.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a point on an algebraic variety over a field: whose coordinates belong to the field in question (in contrast to those points of the variety which are only defined over the algebraic closure of the base field).
- Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- (of a person or personal characteristics) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- (arithmetic) Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a variety: (informally) geometrically simple almost everywhere; (formally) birationally equivalent to projective space
- (algebraic geometry) Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domain.
- (algebra) Of an algebraic expression in indeterminates, or more generally a function: capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
- having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)
- capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers
- consistent with or based on or using reason
noun
noun
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- a person who uses the mind creatively
- A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
- (uncountable) The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
- (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
noun
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- A wall plate.
- An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
- That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
- A motive for an action or a determination.
- (logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.
verb
- think logically
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- present reasons and arguments
- (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
- (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
- (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
- (ambitransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
noun
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- the cognitive condition of someone who understands
- an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
- the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
- A reconciliation of differences.
- (countable) Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.
- (uncountable) Sympathy.
- (uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
- An informal contract; a mutual agreement.
- (countable) Opinion, judgement, or outlook.
adj
verb
verb
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rationalize.
verb
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- To make something rational or more rational.
- (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
- To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.
- To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
noun
- The ability to think clearly and rationally.
- The ability to be easily understood.
- The ability to be easily heard.
- The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.
- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
- the quality of clear water
verb
- be capable of conscious thought
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- expect, believe, or suppose
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
noun
- the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
- a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
- (motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
- plural of marble
- Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
- (figurative, usually in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
verb
verb
- To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
- (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
- carry on a conversation
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- talk at length and formally about a topic
noun
- (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
- (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
- (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
- (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
- (countable) A conversation.
- (Internet, uncountable) Lengthy, often heated debate over controversial subject matter, particularly within fandom and activist spaces. Sometimes rendered as a proper noun with the definite article (i.e. "the Discourse").
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
adj
- capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
- marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
- based on known statements or events or conditions
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
- (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
- (computing) Relating to the conceptual model of a system rather than its physical expression
- Reasonable.
- (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic; sequacious.
noun
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
prep
verb
noun
- The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
- That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
- (law, finance) A sum withheld from an employee's pay for the purpose of paying tax.
- A sum that can be removed in tax calculations, usually from the taxable amount; something that is written off.
- A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out.
- a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
- an amount or percentage deducted
noun
- reasoned and reasonable judgment
- a system of reasoning
- the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations
- the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
- (countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
- (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
- (countable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
- (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
- (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
- (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
- (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
adj
verb
adj
- Mentally rational; sane.
- Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
- Clear; easily understood.
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- having a clear mind
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
noun
noun
- Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
- logical and methodical reasoning
- A proposition arrived at by such thought.
- Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
noun
- a rationalized mental attitude
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- a rationalized mental attitude
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- characteristic way of bearing one's body
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- The way a person holds and positions their body.
- One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
- A situation or condition.
verb
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
- (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
- (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
noun
- a rationalized mental attitude
- standing posture
- (specifically, climbing) A foothold or ledge on which to set up a belay.
- One's opinion or point of view.
- (Scotland) A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a street trader can carry on business.
- A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
- The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
- (Scotland) A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus stop, a taxi rank.
verb
adj
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
- derived or capable of being derived by inference
- based on interpretation; not directly expressed
- Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.
adj
- Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
- Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
- Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
- Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
- appealing to or using the intellect
- involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct
noun
noun
- Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.
- (philosophy) One of the four interior senses; the one by which information from the five exterior senses is understood and interpreted.
- sound practical judgment
noun
noun
- The belief that judgement is intuitive and that reflection and reason are subsequently applied to justify judgements.
- The view that cultural phenomena (literature, art, etc.) simply mirror the ideology of the dominant economic patterns of society.
- The belief that we apprehend the world by copying or reflecting it within the mind; the idea that thought is a reflection of reality, rather than something created by the mind.
- The use of reflection to examine and critique aspects of society.
verb
- To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.
- To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
- To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
- derive by reason
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
noun
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- goodness of reason and judgment
- the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person
- the property of being moderate in price or expenditures
- moderation in expectations
- (countable) A reasonable action or behaviour.
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being reasonable.
noun
- The capability for rational thought.
- The ability to focus the thoughts.
- The ability to be aware of things.
- A healthy mental state.
- (uncountable) Attention, consideration or thought.
- Somebody that embodies certain mental qualities.
- Desire, inclination, or intention.
- Judgment, opinion, or view.
- (philosophy) The non-material substance or set of processes in which consciousness, perception, affectivity, judgement, thinking, and will are based.
- The ability to remember things.
- Continual prayer on a dead person's behalf for a period after their death.
- attention
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- an important intellectual
- an opinion formed by judging something
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- recall or remembrance
- your intention; what you intend to do
verb
- (UK, Ireland) Take note; used to point out an exception or caveat.
- To bring or recall to mind; to remember; bear or keep in mind.
- (chiefly imperative) To pay attention or heed to so as to obey; hence to obey; to make sure, to take care (that).
- (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by.
- To turn one's mind to; to observe; to notice.
- (now regional) To remember.
- To be careful about.
- (now rare except in phrases) To pay attention to, in the sense of occupying one's mind with, to heed.
- (now obsolete outside dialect) To purpose, intend, plan.
- To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time.
- To regard with attention; to treat as of consequence.
- be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to
- pay close attention to; give heed to
- be in charge of or deal with
- keep in mind
- be concerned with or about something or somebody
- be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by
noun
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- knowledge and intellectual ability
- a person who uses the mind creatively
- A person who has that faculty to a great degree.
- (uncountable) The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
- (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
noun
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- A wall plate.
- An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
- That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
- A motive for an action or a determination.
- (logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.
verb
- think logically
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- present reasons and arguments
- (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
- (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
- (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
- (ambitransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
noun
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- the cognitive condition of someone who understands
- an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
- the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises
- A reconciliation of differences.
- (countable) Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer.
- (uncountable) Sympathy.
- (uncountable) The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning.
- An informal contract; a mutual agreement.
- (countable) Opinion, judgement, or outlook.
adj
verb
noun
- The ability to think clearly and rationally.
- The ability to be easily understood.
- The ability to be easily heard.
- The state or measure of being clear, either in appearance, thought or style; lucidity.
- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
- the quality of clear water
adj
noun
- thinking that is coherent and logical
- (uncountable) The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises, abstract thought, ratiocination; (countable) any instance of this, especially as a process leading to an action, motive.
- (countable) A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.
verb
noun
- the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
- a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
- (motor racing) Bits of rolled-up rubber shed by the tires of race cars that accumulate at the edges of the track, especially at the corners.
- plural of marble
- Any of several children's games played with small balls (made of marble or more commonly glass).
- (figurative, usually in a limited number of expressions) Sanity.
verb
verb
- be capable of conscious thought
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- expect, believe, or suppose
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
noun
- Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
- (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
- The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
- Humour, especially when clever or quick.
- Intelligence; common sense.
- A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
- mental ability
- a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- a witty amusing person who makes jokes
prep
verb
noun
- The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
- That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed.
- (law, finance) A sum withheld from an employee's pay for the purpose of paying tax.
- A sum that can be removed in tax calculations, usually from the taxable amount; something that is written off.
- A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out.
- a reduction in the gross amount on which a tax is calculated; reduces taxes by the percentage fixed for the taxpayer's income bracket
- the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise
- the act of subtracting (removing a part from the whole)
- reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied)
- an amount or percentage deducted
noun
- reasoned and reasonable judgment
- a system of reasoning
- the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference
- the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations
- the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation
- (countable, sociology) A system of thought or collection of rhetoric, especially one associated with a social practice.
- (uncountable) A method of human thought that involves thinking in a linear, step-by-step manner about how a problem can be solved. Logic is the basis of many principles including the scientific method.
- (countable) Any system of thought, whether rigorous and productive or not, especially one associated with a particular person.
- (uncountable, mathematics) The mathematical study of relationships between rigorously defined concepts and of mathematical proof of statements.
- (countable, mathematics) A formal or informal language together with a deductive system or a model-theoretic semantics.
- (philosophy, logic) The study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration.
- (uncountable) The part of a system (usually electronic) that performs the boolean logic operations, short for logic gates or logic circuit.
adj
verb
noun
- Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
- logical and methodical reasoning
- A proposition arrived at by such thought.
- Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
noun
- a rationalized mental attitude
- the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- a way of regarding situations or topics etc.
- an item on a list or in a sequence
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- the particular portion of space occupied by something
- (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
- an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute
- the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society
- a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons
- the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom
- the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated
- a job in an organization
- the appropriate or customary location
- a condition or position in which you find yourself
- A place or location.
- (electronics) A pin; a connector.
- A posture.
- A status or rank.
- (figurative) A situation suitable to perform some action.
- (chess) The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A post of employment; a job.
- (finance) A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- (team sports) A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- (poker) The order in which players are seated around the table.
- (arithmetic) A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- (finance) An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- a rationalized mental attitude
- the arrangement of the body and its limbs
- characteristic way of bearing one's body
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- The way a person holds and positions their body.
- One's attitude or the social or political position one takes towards an issue or another person.
- (rare) The position of someone or something relative to another; position; situation.
- A situation or condition.
verb
- behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others
- assume a posture as for artistic purposes
- (intransitive) to put one's body into a posture or series of postures, especially hoping that one will be noticed and admired
- (transitive) To place in a particular position or attitude; to pose.
- (intransitive) to pretend to have an opinion or a conviction
noun
- a rationalized mental attitude
- standing posture
- (specifically, climbing) A foothold or ledge on which to set up a belay.
- One's opinion or point of view.
- (Scotland) A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a street trader can carry on business.
- A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
- The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
- (Scotland) A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus stop, a taxi rank.
verb
noun
- Ordinary sensible understanding; one's basic intelligence which allows for plain understanding and without which good decisions or judgments cannot be made.
- (philosophy) One of the four interior senses; the one by which information from the five exterior senses is understood and interpreted.
- sound practical judgment
noun
noun
- The belief that judgement is intuitive and that reflection and reason are subsequently applied to justify judgements.
- The view that cultural phenomena (literature, art, etc.) simply mirror the ideology of the dominant economic patterns of society.
- The belief that we apprehend the world by copying or reflecting it within the mind; the idea that thought is a reflection of reality, rather than something created by the mind.
- The use of reflection to examine and critique aspects of society.
noun
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- goodness of reason and judgment
- the quality of being plausible or acceptable to a reasonable person
- the property of being moderate in price or expenditures
- moderation in expectations
- (countable) A reasonable action or behaviour.
- (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being reasonable.
verb
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rationalize.
verb
- think rationally; employ logic or reason
- remove irrational quantities from
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results
- To make something rational or more rational.
- (mathematics) To remove radicals, without changing the value of an expression or the roots of an equation.
- To structure something along modern, efficient and systematic lines, or according to scientific principles. This often includes eliminating duplication and grouping like or similar items.
- To justify a discreditable act, or irrational behaviour.
verb
- be capable of conscious thought
- use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments
- expect, believe, or suppose
- bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- judge or regard; look upon; judge
- focus one's attention on a certain state
- have in mind as a purpose
- dispose the mind in a certain way
- imagine or visualize
- decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting
- have or formulate in the mind
- recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection
- ponder; reflect on, or reason about
- To presume; to venture.
- (transitive) To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.
- (intransitive) To conceive of something or someone [with of; or (rare) with on]
- (transitive) To ponder, to go over in one's mind.
- To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).
- (informal, used to show obviousness or agreement) Ellipsis of think so.
- (transitive) To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.
- (intransitive) To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.
- (transitive) To be of opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.
- (obsolete except in methinks) To seem, to appear.
noun
noun
- the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
- (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
- the state of having good sense and sound judgment
- an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon
- a justification for something existing or happening
- a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion
- a rational motive for a belief or action
- A wall plate.
- An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
- That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
- A motive for an action or a determination.
- (logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.
verb
- think logically
- decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
- present reasons and arguments
- (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
- (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
- (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
- (ambitransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
verb
- To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason.
- (intransitive) To engage in discussion or conversation; to converse.
- (intransitive) To write or speak formally and at length.
- carry on a conversation
- to consider or examine in speech or writing
- talk at length and formally about a topic
noun
- (social sciences, countable) An institutionalized way of thinking, a social boundary defining what can be said about a specific topic (after Michel Foucault).
- (countable) Any rational expression, reason.
- (countable) A formal lengthy exposition of some subject, either spoken or written.
- (uncountable) Expression in words, either speech or writing.
- (countable) A conversation.
- (Internet, uncountable) Lengthy, often heated debate over controversial subject matter, particularly within fandom and activist spaces. Sometimes rendered as a proper noun with the definite article (i.e. "the Discourse").
- an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service)
- extended verbal expression in speech or writing
- an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic
verb
- To use logic to arrive at truth; to derive by reason.
- To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.
- To evoke, educe (emotions, feelings, responses, etc.); to generate, obtain, or provoke as a response or answer.
- derive by reason
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
adj
- having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
- endowed with the capacity to reason
- possessing sound knowledge
- exercising or showing good judgment
- Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
- Characterized by thoughtful interaction.
- (computing) Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.
- Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.
- Well thought-out, well considered.
noun
adj
noun
- thinking that is coherent and logical
- (uncountable) The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises, abstract thought, ratiocination; (countable) any instance of this, especially as a process leading to an action, motive.
- (countable) A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.
verb
adj
- Capable of reasoning.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a point on an algebraic variety over a field: whose coordinates belong to the field in question (in contrast to those points of the variety which are only defined over the algebraic closure of the base field).
- Logically sound; not self-contradictory or otherwise absurd.
- (of a person or personal characteristics) Healthy or balanced intellectually; exhibiting reasonableness.
- (arithmetic) Of a number, capable of being expressed as the ratio of two integers.
- (algebraic geometry) Of a variety: (informally) geometrically simple almost everywhere; (formally) birationally equivalent to projective space
- (algebraic geometry) Of a function between varieties: acting as a morphism on an open subset of its domain.
- (algebra) Of an algebraic expression in indeterminates, or more generally a function: capable of being expressed as the ratio of two polynomials.
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
- having its source in or being guided by the intellect (as distinguished from experience or emotion)
- capable of being expressed as a quotient of integers
- consistent with or based on or using reason
noun
adj
- capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning
- marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts
- based on known statements or events or conditions
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
- (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
- (computing) Relating to the conceptual model of a system rather than its physical expression
- Reasonable.
- (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic; sequacious.
adj
- Mentally rational; sane.
- Bright, luminous, translucent, or transparent.
- Clear; easily understood.
- transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
- having a clear mind
- (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
- capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
noun
adj
- of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion
- relating to or having the nature of illation or inference
- resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference
- derived or capable of being derived by inference
- based on interpretation; not directly expressed
- Of, pertaining to, or derived using inference.
adj
- Suitable for exercising one's intellect; perceived by the intellect
- Endowed with intellect; having a keen sense of understanding; having the capacity for higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or cleverness
- Pertaining to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive.
- Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind.
- of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
- appealing to or using the intellect
- involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct