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Keywords: Rousing, Agreeable, Testability, Reason, Logic

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The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.

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the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"

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the quality of being consistent with or based on logic

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that which is characterised by conformity with reason, adhering to qualities of thought such as intelligibility, coherence, consistency, order, logical structure, completeness, testability, and simplicity.

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The quality or state of being rational or agreeable to reason.

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The capacity to draw reasonable inferences from the known to the unknown.

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