Sentence examples for based upon reason from inspiring English sources

Faith is thus a passionate commitment, not based upon reason but inwardly necessitated, to that which can be grasped in no other way.

The result is that we are called upon to apply principles of law theoretically based upon reason and reality to a situation which is basically unreasonable and unrealistic.

This maxim is based on Kant's claim that morality is based upon reason, and as humans we have a right to respect, and a rational person would never wish to be treated just as a means to someone else's end.

Jacobi had contended that Spinozism is the only consistent position for a metaphysics based upon reason alone and that the only solution to this metaphysics so detrimental to religion and morality is a leap of faith, that salto mortale that poor Lessing famously refused to make.

One potential piece of evidence for this is that when denial of ethical supervenience is based upon reasoned arguments, such as those mentioned in Section 5 below, a diagnosis of conceptual confusion or difference arguably become less plausible diagnosis.

In the court's decision, Justice Abe Fortas wrote, "The State's undoubted right to prescribe the curriculum for its public schools does not carry with it the right to prohibit, on pain of criminal penalty, the teaching of a scientific theory or doctrine where that prohibition is based upon reasons that violate the First Amendment".

I wouldn't sign a contract with an "evolving" clause, nor would I want a president who continually evolves based upon reasons unknown to the average voter.

Based upon the reason for hospitalization, review of hospital records, and discussion with the patient, antibiotics were provided during the hospitalization in 38 patients (72%).

The paper develops attitude-based mobility types and defines their specific pedelec affinity based upon differentiated reasons to use a pedelec.

I don't believe that he would make a recommendation based upon improper reasons that a former colleague, a United States attorney, should be removed.

Although controversial, the Basic Argument, if sound, would provide strong reason preferring Weak Evidentialism to Strong; and it would provide good reason for thinking that there are occasions in which it is permissible, both rationally and morally, to form beliefs based upon pragmatic reasons even in the absence of adequate evidence.