Awakened by Hume's skepticism from what he called the "dogmatic slumbers" induced by theologically inflected thought, Kant strove to demonstrate the possibility of true scientific knowledge and the rationality of ethics, aesthetic judgments and even religion.
So to take one of the biggest belief choices of all, we do not choose to believe in God or not, but we can choose how much we attend to inconvenient facts, distorting self-motivations, and the rationality of arguments.
In addition, a strong theological voluntarism shifted the focus of theological discourse away from God's intellect and the rationality of his creation and toward the absolute power and arbitrariness of God's will.
Saltwater economists were less blinkered in their view of markets and the rationality of investors, Krugman wrote (Larry Summers, a saltwater type, once began a paper on finance by declaring "THERE ARE IDIOTS. Look around"), and had retained a Keynesian view of recessions as crises of insufficient demand.
Coming on the heels of interviews in which the current head of the Israeli Defense Force, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz, appeared to put some distance between himself and his superiors about the effectiveness of sanctions and the rationality of the Iranian government, Mr. Diskin's remarks triggered a response equally harsh and personal from Mr. Netanyahu's allies.
And so, years later, grown, I bought a one-way ticket to Lahore, my mother, who had separated from my father and resettled in New York, waving me into a cab that whipped me out over New York's great nighttime bridges to J.F.K. My father, a stoic with the manner and the rationality of Aurelius, was living out a life of virtue in Lahore after years of government service.
The computational results are important references to optimize the design and verify the rationality of the EVC system.
Will a nondebunking understanding of the normative force of hedonic judgments and of the rationality of hedonic motivation be sustained or undermined by future affective neuroscience?
Finally, we forecasted the output of shale gas in China from 2017 to 2025, and analysed the rationality of the prediction data.
10 ns MD simulations were successfully performed to confirm the detailed binding mode and validate the rationality of docking results.
Can we improve science literacy and increase the rationality of our decision-making?
