合ごう理り

noun

rationality; reasonableness

An abstract noun for being in accordance with reason, logic, or sound principles. In everyday writing, 合理的 is often used for 'rational' and 合理性 for 'rationality as a quality,' while 合理 itself appears in more abstract contrasts such as 合理と非合理.

• 合ごう理りと非ひ合ごう理りの境きょう界かいは、いつも明めい確かくとは限かぎらない。

  The boundary between rationality and irrationality is not always clear.

• この議ぎ論ろんでは、感かん情じょうよりも合ごう理りが重じゅう視しされている。

  In this debate, rationality is valued more than emotion.