Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"He asked the question, 'How is it that someone like you--a professor at Harvard, rational, intelligent--can believe in a religion like Islam?'" Asani said.
Seven hours after an early dinner, the gnawing hunger begins to cloud our rational faculties. Some of us cope by gorging on greasy Tommy's pizza; others splurge on Slurpees at 7-Eleven. And a few enterprising students will create something that looks like Stouffer's Mac & Cheese.
When patients discover that their "therapeutic touch" practitioner has not been manipulating their "human energy field"--a nonexistent entity--but merely making useless hand motions in the vicinity of their bodies, they will reject mysticism and move toward more rational therapy. And when herbal medicine devotees become aware that any...
Granted these questions may possess no answers. My inability to resolve them may be a perennial symptom of youth or maybe even the human condition and no reflection on the merits of my education. However, my refined ability to argue a thesis in five to seven pages, double-spaced, does...
And then the astronomer reiterates his rational arguments, summoning gravitational equations to disprove zodiacal influence. And then he rushes off to the lecture hall.