rational self
collocation in Englishmeaningsofrationalandself
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rational
adjective
uk/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/us/ˈræʃ.ən.əl/
based on clear thought ...
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self
noun
uk/self/us/self/
the set of someone's characteristics, such as personality and ability, that are not physical and make that person different from ...
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(Definition ofrationalandselffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Such action presupposes the presence of arationalself, and neither young children nor adults with dementia fit this category.
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Similarly, assumptions about therationalself-interest of national politicians are not very helpful in explaining the communitarisation process.
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The overarching thematic of self-dissolution in the wine poem lies in the suspension ofrationalself-control induced by wine.
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Many researchers have rejected game theory because game theory'srationalself-interested agent does not capture most human behavior.
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Economics has made a good deal of intellectual hay over the last century assuming that people act in theirrationalself-interest.
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Institutional changes are also inherently risky, and the uncertainty attached to changes makes the whole process of change more complicated than a story grounded inrationalself-interest may allow.
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Road rage makes people behave in a way that theirrationalselfwould have rejected as contrary to their own best interests.
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This research project has met with impressive success + a considerable amount of behavior previously thought to be self-defeating has been shown to be explainable as forms ofrationalself-binding.
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First, is it the case that the behavior in question can be supported as equilibrium behavior amongrationalself-interested agents?
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The motifs of the wine poem therefore sketch the unravelling ofrationalself-control through effects that invert the virtues associated with reason while preserving their structure.
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It would no longer be the person'srationalselfthat lays down the standards of ethics, no matter what these standards command at the first-order level.
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