Rationality Sentence Examples

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  • Rationality is continuous throughout.

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  • The " rationality of the real " has in like manner been interpreted as intended to sanctify the existing order.

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  • In the nature of the case satisfactory conclusions as to the rationality which may be predicated of animals are impossible.

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  • His Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (1880) is an attempt to show the essential rationality of religion.

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  • According to these men, even though rationality did not exist in any individual, its existence in nature would still remain intact " (Cousin, Introduction, &c., p. cxx.).

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  • He forgot that he had also limited all logical use of reason, and therefore of practical reason, to phenomena, and thereby undermined the rationality not only of knowledge, but also of faith.

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  • Granted that rationality taken in the sense of inner coherence and self-consistency is the ultimate standard of truth and reality, does self-consciousness itself answer to the demands of this criterion?

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  • We find that we have now got a course of dispersion or degree of rationality which very closely corresponds to that of an ordinary light flint glass, styled o.

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  • Man, said the Stoic, is a rational animal; and in virtue of that rationality he is neither less nor worse than the gods, for the magnitude of reason is estimated not by length nor by height but by its judgments.

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  • On the other, he assigned to vas with its insight into rationality too high a function with regard to the concrete in which the surd was present, a power to certify the truth of scientific principles.

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  • From this, his genius suffered, and the rationality which distinguishes his earlier is much less conspicuous in his later works.

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  • Nature, e.g., is not deduced as real because rational, but being real its rationality is presumed and, very imperfectly, exhibited in a way to make it possible to conceive it as in its essence the reflex of Reason.

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  • If rationality is absolute oneness, freedom is irrational.

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  • This case well illustrates the much closer approach to strict rationality of dispersion which is obtainable by using two different sorts of glass for the two positive lenses, even when one of them has a higher dispersive power than the glass used for the negative lens.

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  • The science of morality must be content in its search for causes to recognize the rationality of choice as a real determining agent in human affairs.

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  • On the contrary, a belief that conduct necessarily results upon the presence of certain motives, and that upon the application of certain incentives, whether of pain or pleasure, upon the presence of certain stimuli whether in the shape of rewards or punishments, actions of a certain character will necessarily ensue, would seem to vindicate the rationality of ordinary penal legislation, if its aim be deterrent or reformatory, to a far greater extent than is possible upon the libertarian hypothesis.

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  • The rationality of the former principle he takes pains to explain and establish; in opposition to Hume's doctrine that it is no part of the function of reason to determine the ends which we ought to pursue, or the preference due to one end over another.

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  • It might be interpreted to mean that the result to be practically sought is simply the development of the rationality of all rational beings - such as men - whom we find to be as yet imperfectly rational.

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  • For whatever may be the real character of the interrelation of moral and metaphysical first principles it is obvious that Taylor's own dissatisfaction with current moral principles arises from an inability to believe in their ultimate rationality, i.e.

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  • This is a fairly major weakness in this attempt to define rationality in purely objective terms.

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  • Among modern writers, James Seth (Ethical Princ., 1894) resumes Aristotle's position, and places Eudaemonism as the mean between the Ethics of Sensibility (hedonism) and the Ethics of Rationality, each of which overlooks the complex character of human life.

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  • The immanent rationality of this first form, in virtue of which at the stage when intelligence acts freely on the occasion of the datum supplied it recognizes continuity with its own self-conscious process, is what gives the dialectical type its meaning.

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  • And there is much that is anticipatory of modern libertarian views in the psychological argument by which Carneades attempted at once to avoid the Epicurean identification of will with chance, and to prove the rationality of choice, undetermined by any external or antecedent necessity, as an explanation of human actions Xxviii.

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  • If we do this on the basis of capacities, particularly rationality, where does this leave humans who might be considered irrational?

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  • Where were the Nonconformist organs, and the anxious seekers after divine light in creed and rationality in church polity?

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  • We can consequently treat rationality as a theoretical posit, much like electrons, viruses and the other theoretical posits of science.

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  • Therefore, the Socialist poet need not use the rationality of prose.

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  • Has enough human rationality been captured in these agents to represent the actions of humans in this highly simplified environment?

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  • Thus, he explicitly recognizes and legitimatises the function of cognitive-instrumental/strategic rationality within the frame of the critical social sciences.

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  • Modeling Bounded rationality In Agent-Based Simulations using the Evolution of Mental Models.

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  • It is also a great way to show both Virgo's Earthly roots, grounded nature and rationality.

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  • Use the rationality and research skills that Virgo is born with to come up with a great idea for your ink.

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  • The first thing to consider when evaluating diet books is the rationality of the claims.

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  • Vulcans often claim that they have no emotions, being creatures of pure rationality, but that is, of course, impossible, rational thought being an evolutionary offshoot of emotions, which underlie thought.

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  • The whole project of ordered rationality, so prized by the Enlightenment, was judged and found wanting.

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  • Instead, the agents possess a form of bounded rationality.

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  • The inconsistency between the stated aims of the incapacity and the waiver applied in some cases undermined the rationality and logic of the measure.

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  • This orientation is mainly related to the substantive form of a pure moral-practical rationality.

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  • In any case, communicative rationality provides a complementary function of alternative forms of rationality.

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  • In the end, one might be left with no more than the kernel of instrumental rationality.

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  • It is not enough for those who believe in procedural rationality to know what happens, they also want to know how it happens.

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  • Tom watches this with an indifference that belongs not to enlightenment rationality, but to the callousness traditionally attributed to the fairy world.

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  • Like most socialists, the authors are very confused about market rationality.

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  • Rationality of religious Identity It was said earlier that what apparently unites multiculturalism and religious revivalism is their identification of religion with identity.

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  • Since we tie judgment and rationality to conscious thought, it looks as if we don't make conscious rational judgements at all.

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  • G 137 The identification of virtue and rationality can really only work for those who are naturally virtuous.

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  • Modern theories date from the 18th century, when the humanitarian movement began to teach the dignity of the individual and to emphasize his rationality and responsibility.

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  • But when such is the case, mankind has never failed in the long run to vindicate its claim to rationality by showing a readiness to give up the old belief whenever tangible evidence of its fallaciousness was forthcoming.

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  • In carrying out this scientific procedure false steps will from time to time be made, which will have to be retraced, or rather amended; but the combination of experimental science with theory has elevated our presumption of the rationality of all natural processes, so far as we can apprehend them at all, into practical certainty; so that, though the mode of presentation of the results may vary from age to age, it is hardly conceivable that the essentials of the method are not of permanent validity.

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  • For relatively short focal lengths a triple construction such as this is almost necessary in order to obtain an objective free from aberration of the 3rd order, and it might be thought at first that, given the closest attainable degree of rationality between the colour dispersions of the two glasses employed, which we will call crown and flint, it would be impossible to devise another form of triple objective, by retaining the same flint glass, but adopting two sorts of crown instead of only one, which would have its secondary spectrum very much further reduced.

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  • All he can do perhaps is point to rationality applied to arguing.

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  • Modeling Bounded Rationality In Agent-Based Simulations using the Evolution of Mental Models.

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  • Then we shall break the rationality assumption into parts and consider each part in turn.

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  • This seems to be unrealistically demanding for real-world agents, and therefor bounded rationality models have been proposed.

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  • For some examples of some additional rationality constraints, see the next section.

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  • Tom watches this with an indifference that belongs not to Enlightenment rationality, but to the callousness traditionally attributed to the fairy world.

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  • It will cover the rationality of religious belief, the function of religious language, the problem of evil and the theology of death.

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  • First, our faith in the rationality of science may be more an a posteriori matter than an a priori.

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  • Rationality of Religious Identity It was said earlier that what apparently unites multiculturalism and religious revivalism is their identification of religion with identity.

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  • He also has interests in ethics and in the shortcomings of formal rationality theories.

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  • It was also his rationality that allowed him to solve the Sphinx 's riddle resulting in his marriage with his mother Jocasta.

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  • Since we tie judgment and rationality to conscious thought, it looks as if we do n't make conscious rational judgements at all.

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  • Many Virgos are drawn to science and mathematics as the perfect expression of their rationality and intelligence.

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  • On the other hand, rationality has two stages.

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