Sentence examples for capacity for reason from inspiring English sources

By Elizabeth Kolbert The vaunted human capacity for reason may have more to do with winning arguments than with thinking straight.

No doubt, the physicist's use of mathematics to uncover the fundamental properties of the material world realizes the human capacity for reason in a superb way.

Traditionally, man has been seen as having dominion over animals because of his superior capacity for reason, language, technology and other intellectual characteristics valued in philosophy.

He seems unable to help himself, as though it's in his nature to call on our capacity for reason and our sense of common humanity — and in our nature to understand it.

Having evolved to exercise a measure of mastery over our environment, having begun to shape not only our planet, for better and worse, but also our biology, we stand, he argued, at the point of creating networked intelligences with a far greater capacity for reason than our own.

In this light the Danish minister for integration and ecclesiastical affairs, Birthe Rønn Hornbech - herself a trained lawyer with a well-respected capacity for reason on the political centre right - last week wrote a column in the liberal newspaper Politiken, explaining why she thought a law banning religious symbols in court was both counterproductive and a dangerous signal.

Nicholas parallels the way our plural capacities for reason, imagination and sensation are founded in "intellectus" as their single source to the simultaneous outflow and return of the plurality of creatures to their single divine Source.

We need to inject a dose of cold hard analytic facts about the brain into this discussion so we can figure out how to best capitalize on the native (and remarkable) capacities for reason and passion, analysis and synthesis, detail and context, that co-exist as a result of the exquisitely wired networks distributed within and between the hemispheres of our brains.

In the episode "HOMR" (season 12, 2001) Homer gets surgery to remove the (newly discovered) crayon from his brain, boosting his IQ to 105, but although he bonds very well with Lisa, his newfound capacity for understanding and reason makes him less happy and he gets Moe to reinsert a crayon, causing his intelligence to return to its previous level.

Practical reason is the domain of ethics and politics, the uniquely human domain, but the political life is not necessarily the best life, compared with that devoted to the divinely shared human capacity for theoretical reason and contemplation (conmpare Nicomachean Ethics I with X.7 9).

American supplies are tight, partly because Mexico's Torreon smelter is running at below capacity for environmental reasons.