Sentence examples for be understood on rational from inspiring English sources

490 bce), for example, argued that the world could be understood on rational principles ("all things are numbers"); that it was made of four elements earth, water, air, and fire; that Earth was a sphere; and that the Moon shone by reflected light.

Rogerson proposes instead that a judgment of beauty makes a moral demand on others to appreciate the object's beauty, so that the "ought" is to be understood as rational, and more specifically moral, rather than merely predictive.

According to psychological monism, motivational conflict and irrational action do not result from a 'struggle' between the rational and the non-rational aspects of the soul; what we call irrational must be understood as (bad) states of the rational soul.

And British Leyland's later cars, the Allegro and Marina, could only be understood as sick jokes perpetrated on patriotic British motorists by social deviants whose corpses would be bulldozed into the foundations of Spaghetti Junction in any rational polity.

Suppose that the rational numbers are understood (this is of course a major assumption, but certainly the rationals are more easily understood than the reals).

The second is the assumption that human behaviour – of employees, customers, managers and so on – is best understood as if we are all rational egoists.

His thesis was on rational expectations.

It is important to understand the underlying pathophysiology involved so the appropriate inotrope can be chosen on a rational basis.

Yet the republican sentiment, rational and secular, is easily understood in 21st-century Britain.

That is, they understood the drama as a poem, which had the capacity to move, as does a real poem, musically — to affect on a pre-rational level".

Because the underlying biology of mobilization is not well understood, improving the process on a rational basis is difficult.