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Rationalization is a bit of an oxymoron, in that it is NOT rational, in the following aspect.  Rationalization starts with a selected “side” and then comes up with arguments to support that position.  Whereas, in being rational, one would initially be neutral as to sides, and then decide by the use of evidence gathered, to pick a side.

I also do not know what adding the moderating word “conceptual” means when it is used with the word “rationalization”.  But maybe it is an attempt to make “rationalization” sound like something more acceptable than what it is: a defense mechanism that is used to support a position that they do not have sufficient actual evidence for.