Sentence examples for allegedly rational from inspiring English sources

In attempting to analyse these issues, France is caught between the allegedly rational views of the left and the irrational views of the extreme right.

Lucky pipettes and secret rituals abound within the world of allegedly rational science, and I am learning to accept that sometimes experiments just don?t work.

"It informs every shade of how the characters think, both those who are allegedly rational and otherwise.

Market economics leads to a strangely passive view of public life, wherein our collective welfare is entrusted to markets, to millions of allegedly rational individuals.

We watch and read the adverts (people's profiles) and – based on what we are told is factually relevant data – we then, allegedly, make a rational decision to try the product.

His way of thinking was logical and rational, but he allegedly nurtured an "exaggerated belief in paragraphs" and a "dogmatic belief in international law", and wrongly thought that other countries would obey formal regulations at most times.

By the time of the composition of the Principles, Descartes had formulated a method that, like the Scholastics, strived to explain natural phenomena based on the allegedly simple and irrefutable "facts" and/or observations, drawn from rational reflection on concepts or from everyday experience, about the most fundamental aspects of reality.

One of Wittgenstein's main aims in his lengthy discussions of rational numbers and pseudo-irrationals is to show that pseudo-irrationals, which are allegedly needed for the mathematical continuum, are not needed at all.

When women and children are allegedly being sexually abused and there are epidemic levels of self-harm, it is not a rational response to make a secretive system more secretive and to attempt to silence those who raise legitimate concerns.

"Although it is allegedly backed by the price of Venezuela's oil reserves, there is no reason why a rational investor should put money into it," Daniele Bianchi, an assistant professor of finance at Warwick Business School, told VICE News.

Mr. Obama allegedly does not.