Although not providing an explanatory rationale for rational goals, the PRACCIS project (Promoting Reasoning and Conceptual Change in Science) helps science students link evidence to models and provide justifications accordingly (Chinn et al., 2013).
One can emphasize rational goals by providing an explanatory rationale for rational goals.
Being the deregulated BCR/ABL kinase activity the cause of CML, targeting its catalytic domain was the most rationale approach for the rational development of small molecules that inhibit ABL kinase activity.
Once you take terrorists to be rational actors, you need a theory about their rationale.
Lemann writes, "Once you take terrorists to be rational actors, you need a theory about their rationale".
Rationale is, of course, very different from rational.
We learn in Parshat Chukat (Numbers 19 1-27:1) that there are commandments that have rational explanations (mishpatim) and those that appear to lack any rationale whatsoever (chukim).
Whereas traditional programming is rational in the sense that it provides the program with a rationale by its reliance on subjective method and problem solving, these new techniques of "dark programming" do not produce any rationale; moreover, the results are not restricted to be easily rationalized.
Next, systematic differences in the construction rationale of the ontologies should be identified and a rational strategy should be put into place where those differences will be retained.
Such a rationale is hard to argue with, at least to a rational audience.
