Sentence examples for Rational foundations from inspiring English sources

Rational foundations of modernity are cunningly accepted by man as the launching platform of ever-wilder irrationalities.

In the 17th century, attempts were made to develop empirical and rational foundations for its basic principles.

Will evolutionary theory be the universal acid, to borrow Daniel Dennett's metaphor, which eats away at the rational foundations of our morality?

In so doing he potentially undermined the rational foundations not only of beliefs about things not immediately present in space or time but of all scientific knowledge (see induction, problem of).

Roth, A.E. "Comments on Tversky's 'Rational Theory and Constructive Choice'," The Rational Foundations of Economic Behavior, K. Arrow, E. Colombatto, M Perlman, and C. Schmidt, editors, Macmillan, 1996, 198-202.

(2003 41 722; C.R. Plott, Rational individual behaviour in markets and social choice processes: the discovered preference hypothesis, in: K. Arrow, E. Colombatto, M. Perleman, C. Schmidt (Eds)., Rational Foundations of Economic Behaviour, Macmillan, London, St . Martins, New York, 1996, pp. 225–250]; (iii) internally coherent but strongly influenced by some initial arbitrary anchor [D.

Nor could ethics have a rational foundation.

"It's not an issue with a solid, rational foundation.

Since the credibility of the Bible rests upon belief in divine revelation, theology lacks a rational foundation.

602 discriminates between legitimate and illegitimate children without rational foundation and therefore violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

In contrast to a prevailing relativism, Drescher demonstrates that both truth and ethics can be placed on a rational foundation.