There is rationalization, which is that when you do something or think something bad you rationalize it and you give it a more socially acceptable explanation.

还有合理化，是指当你做坏事或有不良想法时,你会将行为合理化,为行为寻找一个更为社会接受的解释。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Yet how many people could give a kind of reasoned account of ? what makes these beliefs true ? or what grounds these beliefs?

但多少人会能,给一个合理的解释,是什么让这些信念成真,它们的根据为何？

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Because I think positing a soul doesn't really yet offer us the explanation.

因为我认为灵魂存在的假设并未,给予我们一个合理的解释

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And, what we will do next day is we will look at the consequences of such an energetic set up, and rationalize that when ions form, by necessity we must form ionic crystals.

明天我们要做的是,观察一下,这样一个充满活力的创造的结果，然后合理地解释要想得到离子，我们必须先得到离子晶体。

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