• Constant questioning and research.
• The search for common principles (cause and effect).
• Reality is considered to be comprehensible to everyone through reason.
  
• Finding justifications that could persuade anyone, not only for special individuals.
• Can't explain everything, sometimes only theories can be given.
• What we currently know could be wrong, being replaced by new information in my future.
  
• Rational and Mythical explaining aren't competitors but are simply different methods of explaining things.
  
• Rational explaining first emerged in Ancient Greece.