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rational(1)(dictionary)
rational(3)(dictionary)
rational(dictionary)
rational number(encyclopedia)
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Rational Basis(law)
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channelize (iou) and rational psychology (sh)


channelize (iou)



channelize verb trans. Chiefly US. Also channelise. E17.
[from CHANNEL noun1 + -IZE.]
= CHANNEL verb 2.
? In isolated use before M20.
channeli'zation noun E20.

rational psychology (sh)




Metaphysical discipline that attempted to determine the Nature of the human soul by a priori reasoning.

In Christian Wolff's division of metaphysics, rational psychology was one of three disciplines included under the heading of "special metaphysics" (the others being rational cosmology and rational theology). Immanuel Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, criticized the pretensions of rational psychology.