Sentence examples for is rationalization from inspiring English sources
noun
The process, or result of rationalizing.
There is rationalization: "The crime against Anita was decades old.
In his 2012 book, "In Praise of Reason," Lynch identified three sources of skepticism about reason: the suspicion that all reasoning is rationalization, the idea that science is just another faith, and the notion that objectivity is an illusion.
"It is rationalization that allows them to avoid admitting that their desires are harmful and illegal," said Bill Walsh, a former commander of the Crimes Against Children Unit for the Dallas Police Department, who founded the most prominent annual national conference on the issue.
If merely a heuristic device and not a universal law of progress, then, what is rationalization and whence comes his uncompromisingly dystopian vision?
What it comes down to is rationalization -- that natural and human need to justify that which in fact does not make sense.
"We know all about them here," he says with a pitch black grin, "my particular mechanism is rationalization, although repression is very popular".
No, it's Rationalization Man!
Popular wisdom -- okay, maybe it's rationalization -- suggests that these cravings may represent some physiological need.
The most common individual ego defense mechanisms employed by medical students were Rationalization (6.43 ± 2.34), Anticipation (6.34 ± 2.44), and Undoing (5.93 ± 2.67).
They are rationalizations (and not so satisfying to receive).
All of these are rationalizations for inaction.
