In the simplest textbooks, the powers of the soul were divided into three groups: vegetative (including nutrition, growth, and reproduction), which pertained to both plants and animals; sensitive (including external senses, internal senses, appetite, and motion), which pertain to animals alone; and rational powers, pertaining to human beings alone.
By the late 1850s, Charles Darwin had already shattered the notion that human beings could control how they develop – let alone build a rational society.
The former case, where the explanation is in terms of belief alone, is a rational process but not a case of motivation at all.
Not least among the important lessons of Hempel's enduring legacy is the realization that the standards of science cannot be derived from mere descriptions of its practice alone but require rational justification in the form of explications satisfying the highest standards of philosophical rigor.
Although the use of LABA alone is not rational, the article reported an improvement of adherence to guidelines from 2000 to 2005, with a decrease of use of LABA alone and an increase of the LABA+ICS association [ 30].
The situation is extraordinary by any rational, let alone scholarly, accounting.
If our economic policies were rational, let alone caring, they would be designed to help the long-term jobless overcome this stigma and return to work.
Ultimately, the Roman Catholic analysis must say that the evidence that belief is reasonable can never be so clear and convincing that it compels one to believe on rational grounds alone.
Logic and rational thinking alone, however, could not overcome one crucial factor that seemed to be clouding my judgment: the stunning image of Kristen wearing something terrifically slinky, just for me.
