Sentence examples for Rational claim from inspiring English sources

Militants on each side have long mirrored one another -- each denying that the other has any rational claim to the area.

Among these, pre-eminently, is the fact that torture evaporates our every rational claim to justice, and will likely be the signature national crime of our generation — a matter in which we are, by the very definition of democracy, complicit.

More specifically, a proposition is the logically well-formed and semantically well-composed, truth-valued, unified objective representational content of a judgment; and more generally it is "what is judged" in the act of putting forward any sort of rational claim about the world (9: 109) (14: 659–660) (24: 934).

And how do the supposedly rational claims of the law define marginal entities, both natural and supernatural, including ghosts, dogs, slaves, terrorist suspects, and felons?

Until recently, the received wisdom was that emotion was there just to attract attention – but more than that, emotive content is a much more potent way of building your brand than rational claims.

Winners of Effies "tend to be a little less emotional and use rational claims a bit more" than winners at Cannes, Ms. Moses said, and ads that won Lions tended to be much better liked than their Effie counterparts.

It must be adapted to their estimations of movie reviewers, feelings and beliefs about you and your character, and rely on rational claims of a kind they will recognise.

By contrast, Kant's critique aims to clear the ground for rational claims that can be justified.

Dostoevsky was skeptical of western philosophical ideologies such as utilitarianism and political systems such as socialism or democracy that made rational claims about human behavior.

In the midst of a welter of supra-rational claims for legitimacy of action, it's easy for the U.S. and its real world secular interests to be swamped by irreconcilable demands.

It would follow that for me, a distinction between my welfare and that of others would be arbitrary, and the rational egoist claim that each ought to maximize his own welfare would be unjustified when applied to me.