The phrase "a rational knowledge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing knowledge that is based on reason, logic, or sound judgment.
Example: "In philosophy, the pursuit of a rational knowledge is essential for understanding the nature of reality."
Alternatives: "logical understanding" or "reasoned knowledge".
These incorrect responses provided important information because they were a better test of the working hypothesis, since they were not based on a rational knowledge of mathematics.
Pleasure might simply reflect a rational knowledge of Mathematics, the correlation higher than chance reported above between correct choice and pleasure, and that lower than chance between displeasure and wrong choice, may simply indicate that pleasure/displeasure occurred after the known correct answers had been selected by the subjects.
Together, these studies present a rational knowledge-based approach to individualized treatment, whereby the combinatorial analysis of biologically and experimentally defined expression signatures might one day guide therapeutic decisions that are truly tailored to the unique molecular anatomy of an individual's tumor.
The truths that Descartes presents to Elisabeth supply a body of rational knowledge on the basis of which we are able to use our free will correctly, choosing good over evil.
Just as there is an order of rational knowledge, with its 'degrees,' there are degrees of suprarational knowledge — of a higher wisdom — that is beyond 'natural knowledge.' These are, on the one hand, 'the science of revealed mysteries' or 'theological wisdom' and, on the other, 'mystical theology.' Here, Maritain's debt to Augustine and John of the Cross is particularly evident.
He also remained a model of the Russian nauchno-tekhnicheskaya intelligentsia, the term applied to scientists and engineers with broad interests and intellectual curiosity beyond their profession, deep trust in the power of rational knowledge, and a modest and unassuming lifestyle.
She argues that conscience is not an immediate source of moral knowledge, as Burnet would have it, but a source of moral affection or feeling that complements, and presupposes, a proper (i.e., rational) knowledge of moral laws.
Maritain also acknowledges the possibility of a natural, pre-philosophical, but still rational knowledge of God (see Approches de Dieu, pp. 13-22).
We have developed a rational, automated knowledge extraction (KE) engine to aid the forward model building process.
Many philosophers Karl Marx included thought that historical forces and the steady accumulation of rational knowledge would someday yield an "end state" for history.
Even as he draws strict limits to rational knowledge, he attempts to defend reason as a faculty of knowledge, as playing a necessary role in natural science, in the face of skeptical challenges that reason faces in the period.
