单词 | rationalizable |
释义 | rationalizableadj. That may be rationalized. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [adjective] > in accordance with reason > potentially rationalizable1896 1896 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 175 This adaptation justifies us in treating reality as everywhere rationalisable. 1929 Spectator 23 Nov. 755/1 Unrationalized, and perhaps not rationalizable. 1954 R. F. C. Hull tr. E. Neumann Origins Consciousness ii. 367 In the dawn period the rationalizable component of a symbol was of crucial importance, since it was at this point that man's view of the world passed from the symbolic to the rational. 1998 Interzone Feb. 4/3 It is an organized and rationalizable field of study, and hence is susceptible to the kind of thought-experiments that sf traditionally applies to physics or engineering or anthropology. Derivatives ˌrationalizaˈbility n. ΚΠ 1936 L. Wirth & E. A. Shils tr. K. Mannheim Ideol. & Utopia iii. 124 The intuitional approach..conceives of knowledge and rationalizability as somewhat uncertain. 2005 Econ. Theory (Nexis) July 167 The empirical contents of the standard theory have been shown to be more robust than the premise of rationalizability of a firm's choice behavior in terms of profit maximization. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1896 |
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