Thus, Grotius and Hobbes stand together at the head of that "school of natural law" that, in accordance with the tendencies of the Enlightenment, tried to construct a whole edifice of law by rational deduction from a hypothetical "state of nature" and a "social contract" of consent between rulers and subjects.
In fact, what the best Minimalist art evokes is a sort of quasi-mediative state in which the mind is fully concentrated in a way that transcends rational deduction.
At the end of And Then There Were None, a character reflects – in the space of one sentence – on how someone might have solved the mystery, and outlines a thoroughly logical and wonderfully paradoxical way in which rational deduction could have led to the identification of the killer.
Professor Rawls sought to show that the principle flowed from rational deduction rather than personal taste.
And, like Aquinas, Maritain accepted the classical foundationalist position that these beliefs could be established by rational deduction from self-evident principles and constituted genuine knowledge.
Meyerson, who had no doubt of the basic realist impetus of science, carefully distinguished Einstein's "rational deduction of the physical world" from the geometrical unifications of gravitation and electromagnetism of Weyl and Eddington.
Since not all gene expression changes observed in a tumor are causal to cancer development, we demonstrate an approach based on multiple concerted disruption (MCD) analysis of genes that facilitates the rational deduction of aberrant genes and pathways, which otherwise would be overlooked in single genomic dimension investigations.
These theories, as affirmations of a complete panmathematicism, or rather of a pangeometrism (§§ 157 58), were compared to the rational deductions of Hegel's Logic.
It is true that Bacon was more skeptical of hearsay claims than were his contemporaries, that he was suspicious of rational deductions (holding to the superior dependability of confirming experiences), and that he extolled experimentation so ardently that he has often been viewed as a harbinger of modern science more than 300 years before it came to bloom.
* Nor is § 5(b) deprived of a rational basis because disqualification of the household extends one year beyond the year in which the dependency deduction is claimed.
Held: The tax deduction taken for the benefit of the parent in a prior year is not a rational measure of the need of a different household with which the child of the tax-deducting parent lives, and the administration of the Act allows no hearing to show that the tax deduction is irrelevant to the need of the household.
