Sentence examples for capable of rational thinking from inspiring English sources

"We've been weeding out anybody capable of rational thinking, of realism," said Ms. Ehrenreich, a longtime activist in leftist politics.

Or maybe this is the only part of my life in which I'm capable of rational thinking, but for my fiancé and I, this is something to which we've agreed.

Do you think cats and dogs are capable of rational thought?

HENDRIK HERTZBERG: I don't doubt that Boehner is capable of rational thought.

They teach us that we are not the only beings with personalities, minds capable of rational thought, altruism and a sense of humor.

Augustine's view is not unlike what one finds, for example, in Plato's Timaeus [e.g. 89d-92c] or Aristotle's De Anima [e.g. 414b-415a] where different levels of soul are discussed in terms of ascending degrees of complexity in their capacities, e.g., souls capable only of reproduction and nutrition, or of sensation and locomotion as well, or finally, of rational thinking.

But then, risk perception isn't just a matter of rational thinking.

Happily, my doctors didn't follow Dr. Raghavan's line of "rational thinking".

What kind of rational thinking person had visions like these?

Welcome to the world of rational thinking, the art of being Less Wrong.

This is because,he holds, prior to this time, children are not capable of "thinking about thinking," the sort of meta-level thinking that characterizes philosophical thinking.