Idea and Rationale

Idea

Idea noun - Something imagined or pictured in the mind.

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Rationale and idea are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rationale" instead a noun "Idea".

Nearby Words: ideal, ideation

Rationale noun - A statement given to explain a belief or act.

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Idea and rationale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Idea" instead a noun "Rationale".

good	good idea	good rationale
better	better idea	better rationale
similar	similar idea	similar rationale
common	common idea	common rationale
Other adjectives: original, actual, entire, real, great, dangerous, bad, main, clever, possible, above, odd, basic, different.

Ryan despised the idea of taxes, but then created a surcharge for oxygen on the rationale that they were his trees.

Source: Video Game / BioShock
Another rationale for this viewpoint is the more it's established that the Doctor finds any attraction to females, the harder it will be to sell the idea of the Doctor someday regenerating into a woman, which many want to see happen.

Source: Dry Docking
The trope is subverted in the episode "Boom Town", in which the villain claims that her sparing of a journalist is evidence that she isn't evil, and the Doctor completely dismisses the idea, pointing out that it's just a rationale she uses to live with herself.

Source: Noble Demon

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