Although supposedly an example from mathematics of his rational method, La Géométrie was a technical treatise understandable independently of philosophy.
Incrementalism circumvents these problems, producing defensible policies where the rational method is paralyzed.
Yet to suggest itself as a rational method of communication, of infuriating readers into buying the magazine, was strange inverted Timestyle.
…developed a rational method, called activity analysis, for allocating resources so as to attain a given economic objective at the lowest cost.
Lees' rational method of aggregate grading, however, is a very lengthy and time-consuming procedure.
These results indicate that the modification of parameters is a rational method.
A rational method for the design of landfills using DBs has not been developed.
The rational method features the functional approach and the structural template approach.
The two men independently developed a rational method, called activity analysis, for allocating resources so as to attain a given economic objective at the lowest cost.
Where these conditions are unmet (and they will be unmet, according to Lindblom, for most policy issues), the rational method provides no guidance whatsoever for policy makers.
Mano a mano, Picasso stands up brilliantly to Ribera, Zurbarán, and Poussin, suggesting that the attention to stark fact in the first two, and the rational method of the third, were historic steps in Picasso's direction.
