The phrase "rational ability" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that is used to refer to the intellectual power or capacity to think logically, make reasoned judgments, and draw reasonable conclusions. For example: "John is an excellent problem solver—he has a great rational ability."
The BBC is out of control, was the motion proposed by the Guardian's Emily Bell and independent producer Peter Bazalgette in a session devised by Carlton programme head, Steve Hewlett whose rational ability to cut through the BBC's problems led more than one to wonder why Dyke doesn't replace his strategy department with one man.
On his refusal to break the boycott by shopping at the grocery, he writes: "It may well be that I waited an overly long time to take this step, but I had faith in the court system and in the rational ability of people to come to satisfactory conclusions among themselves.
The book then dives down into the wreck that comes from the separation of high-level rational ability and low-level emotional intelligence.
I believe we will learn how he was exposed to social influences that overcame his rational ability to make his own decisions.
Given the obvious constraints on Kim Jong-il's options, and his long-demonstrated rational ability to avoid cataclysmic behavior, there seems little risk in assuming such a posture.
As Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recognized in Aleman v. Village of Hanover Park (2011), telling a suspect that "the doctors have determined a cause of death" and that they have excluded any cause of death other than a homicide, can destroy a suspect's rational ability to choose not to confess.
John Locke's doctrine of Earth as human "property" has been central to current presuppositions about our selves: justified on the grounds of our possessing unique, divinely bestowed, rational abilities.
While Nelkin does not herself put weight on the supposed analogy between abilities and dispositions, she shares certain theses with the new dispositionalists, notably that an agent in a 'Frankfurt case' does retain her rational abilities.
This picture of how rational abilities in general are to be explained, including the ability to speak a language, was called into question by Ryle in a number of early papers (especially in 1946a, ostensibly reworked as the second chapter of 1949a, and in 1946b and 1950).
In broad brush-strokes, Ryle's argument-strategy against the supposition that generally intelligent or rational abilities can be explained in terms of prior theoretical operations (involving the apprehension of the relevant truths) is to exhibit how the supposition leads to logically vicious regresses.
The body is the carrier of personhood and as rational abilities are reduced, meaning can also be expressed through body language [ 58].
