RATIONAL START OR RATIONALITY

I. Those Faculties whereby we are inabled to apprehend and compare the general natures of things as to Truth and Falshood, Good and Evil,*and to demean our selves accordingly towards them, are styled
- RATIONAL, Reasonable, Ratiocination.
  - Apprehensive; whereby we are rendred able or unable to
    - Know and apprehend knowable things, Generals as well as Particu∣lars, respecting in them Truth and Falshood.
      - UNDERSTANDING , Intellect, Mind, mental, apprehend, compre∣hend, perceive, conceive, reach, resent, Sentiment.
    - Compound and compare Notions together, so as to make a right esti∣mate of things and consequences.
      - JUDGMENT , Iudicious.
    - Apply general Principles to particular cases, being a kind of practical Judgment or Memory relating to matters of Duty.
      - CONSCIENCE.
  - Motive; whereby we do rationally follow any thing as good, or fly it as evil: or being without any such motion.
    - WILL, Desire, List, Option, Vote, Wish, Mind, Pleasure, covet, volun∣tary.