The phrase "rational account" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a reasoned explanation of an event or situation. For example: The economist gave a rational account of the recession's effects on the market.
In critically endorsing Kant's idea of transcendental idealism as the science of philosophy, Novalis, too, wishes to see philosophy as a meta-discipline, a rational account of the boundaries of rationality.
I can't give a particularly rational account of the poetry and power of an installation by Joseph Beuys, for example.
Their supposedly sane leader is hardly less ridiculous, putting his faith in this boneheaded crew and offering no rational account of his motives.
As well as the reviews, the book contains a fractious debate with Mr Dennett, and a somewhat more measured one with Mr Chalmers.These will be enjoyable for those who like philosophical polemic, but they do little to dispel the impression that Mr Searle and some of his critics fail to give a rational account of why they disagree.
Of course, the one with experience may be more effective than the inexperienced person who has only the rational account.
Unlike some interpreters of the correspondence principle Darrigol does believe that there is a coherent and rational account of Bohr's correspondence principle in terms of the intensity correspondence.
Cognitive biases, such as the anchoring bias, pose a serious challenge to rational accounts of human cognition.
First, we propose a competitive interaction mechanism that is consistent with the fundamentals of rational accounts of diffusion.
By any rational accounting, we'd be numbering refugee camps like the sprawling complex at Dadaab, Kenya, among the planet's newest cities.
Previous research has offered two potential explanations for these interdependences: social accounts, in which they result from institutional pressures, and rational accounts, in which firms are interdependent as a result of how adoption by rivals affects expectations about the profitability of the technology.
In the Verizon NY disconnection notice, the 'DS1' that may be shut off is NOT 'switched' and therefore is not counted as a line - yet, since there is no rational accounting of copper access lines in service, much less fiber optics, the regulators and FCC can play games to claim there is a 'loss' of lines and revenues.
