Sentence examples for A rational idea from inspiring English sources
On-site renewable energy "looks good" but was not "a rational idea," Mr. Hoelzle said.
"I think my behavior was a combination of a rational idea — that it was better to be talking to people who hated us or disapproved of us than not — and that good old-fashioned encumbrance of mine, the desire to please".
A work of art expresses or exhibits an aesthetic idea in so far as it succeeds in giving sensible form to a rational idea.
His stated purpose was to restore the Christian principle to its source in creative self-consciousness; he did not yet openly oppose the principle itself, but sought to differentiate it, as a rational idea, from ecclesiastical dogmatism.
It's not 100percentt clear the extent to which Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia meant what it sounded like he meant, but tossing around the word "revolt" in the context of a discussion of the U.S. government is never a smart nor rational idea.
Despite the density and richness of its language, however, "The Fever" doesn't go very deep in its analysis of the fundamental causes of the world's inequities or posit any rational ideas about how they could be eased.
A work of genius must have "spirit," which it gets through its content, typically as Kant assumes without argument, although perhaps in his time, long before the invention of non-objective art, without any real need for argument a rational idea, indeed an idea relevant specifically to morality.
Rather than projecting the rational idea of negotiating a reasonable immigration reform package, Hannity and Perry opted instead to suggest that a rifle loaded with rounds bigger than their penises is the only real way to deal with the border issue.
The most rational idea I could summon was to purchase a Polish donut and listen to bootleg disco dance music on the street.
Since then, the rational idea behind designing the drug has given way to an unexpectedly complex range of outcomes.
In this passage Kant makes the distinction between the Æsthetic Idea and the Rational Idea, and it marks the transition from the consideration of the æsthetic judgment of taste to that of the teleological judgment of purpose in Nature.
