Sentence examples for capable of rationalizing from inspiring English sources

People are capable of rationalizing almost any action if it enriches them.

The challenge that Davidson raised for non-causal theories of action explanation was to account for the fact that, for any action performed, there may well be a large number of mental events and states true of the agent, and capable of rationalizing the action, but that don't thereby explain that action.

If the Mayan calendar convinces you that the apocalypse will arrive in 2012, you will still be perfectly capable of rationalizing the arrival of an ordinary New Year's Day in 2013.

My hope is that it also gave us all a chance to feel something that we might previously only have been capable of intellectually rationalizing.

Are they any less capable of inciting, rationalizing, and justifying harassment, bullying, and violence?

Another problem with the assimilation of emotions to feeling is that it tempts one to treat emotions as brute facts, susceptible of biological or psychological explanation but not otherwise capable of being rationalized.

But she has found tidy ways of rationalizing both.

Behind these changes lay a new conception of rationalized competition.

No, and they'll watch the special and they'll say, 'No, no, it was just edited to make me look that way.' That's the only way they can rationalize and justify that they're capable of doing that.

He spent a lot of time rationalizing the business.

I'm capable of medalling.