Sentence examples for a rational account from inspiring English sources

In critically endorsing Kant's idea of transcendental idealism as the science of philosophy, Novalis, too, wishes to see philosophy as a meta-discipline, a rational account of the boundaries of rationality.

As well as the reviews, the book contains a fractious debate with Mr Dennett, and a somewhat more measured one with Mr Chalmers.These will be enjoyable for those who like philosophical polemic, but they do little to dispel the impression that Mr Searle and some of his critics fail to give a rational account of why they disagree.

"A rational account of perceptual compensation for coarticulation". In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone (eds)., Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Indeed, it has to be examined thoroughly if a rational account is to be rendered of the essential unitary make-up of human nature.

In one place, Aristotle says that what distinguishes experience (empeiria) from technê is that the latter has a rational account, which explains what it does.

At this point his account of the ground is not consistent, but this inconsistency points to the essential issue Schelling is trying to understand, namely whether philosophy can give a rational account of the fact of the manifest world.

There is a common prejudice that "feelings," a word now sometimes commonly used interchangeably with "emotions," neither owe nor can give any rational account of themselves.

I can't give a particularly rational account of the poetry and power of an installation by Joseph Beuys, for example.

Unlike some interpreters of the correspondence principle Darrigol does believe that there is a coherent and rational account of Bohr's correspondence principle in terms of the intensity correspondence.

By any rational accounting, we'd be numbering refugee camps like the sprawling complex at Dadaab, Kenya, among the planet's newest cities.

We try to subdue tension and emotion by giving a rational, technocratic account of the decision.