Sentence examples for application of the reason from inspiring English sources

The former is cast in terms of whether a reason for one agent must also be a reason for anyone else while the latter is cast in terms of the occurrence of free agent variables in the sufficient condition for the application of the reason predicate corresponding to the reason.

The only difference is that for Nagel the relevant back-reference is to be found in the general form of the reason (which turns out to be a universally quantified principle giving a sufficient condition for the application of the reason predicate) whereas for Pettit the relevant back-reference is to be found in a full statement of the reason itself.

Basically, if the sufficient condition for the application of the reason predicate (the condition given by the antecedent of the principle corresponding to the reason) includes such a free-agent variable then the reason is agent-relative; otherwise it is agent-neutral.

Orthodoxy can only result from the application of right reason to the faith of the Bible (De veritate Sacrae Scripturae, vol. 1, p. 249).

In his most famous poem, "A Satire on Mankind", inspired by Juvenal, Rochester attempts to think himself clear of the cast of mind that sought teleological explanations of human conduct and purpose through the application of reason to the alleged mysteries of the cosmos.

That is, he shows that the argument of the skeptic fails because the consistent application of reason leads to the view not that reason is unreliable, but precisely the opposite.

The systematic application of pure reason to the explanation of natural phenomena reached its extreme development with Aristotle (384 322 bce), whose great system of the world later came to be regarded as the synthesis of all worthwhile knowledge.

Its publications teach that doctrinal changes and refinements result from a process of progressive revelation, in which God gradually reveals his will and purpose, and that such enlightenment results from the application of reason and study, the guidance of the holy spirit, and direction from Jesus Christ and angels.

When deviations in the articulation between the processes were identified, the faculty determined how best to reconcile these differences and assess whether the deviation were due to flaws in the application of the process or reasoned responses to an ever-changing environment.

The Stoics had famously treated all the passions as diseases of the soul, from which the wise man could be cured by the application of calm reason.

For Martin Luther as for Bacon or Descartes, the way to truth lay in the application of human reason.