Sentence examples for commitment to rationality from inspiring English sources

The episode showed his persistence and commitment to rationality.

At times, it seemed quixotic — the single-minded pursuit of a strangely ambitious structure — but beneath it lay a deep commitment to rationality.

(See Huxley's classic "On a Piece of Chalk" or Haldane's "Science and Everyday Life," reprints of his weekly essays for The Daily Worker). All maintain an unflinching commitment to rationality amid the soft attractions of an uncritical mysticism.

They do so, I believe, because of an irrational emotional commitment to rationality - one that renders them, ironically, impervious to both scientific evidence on how the political mind and brain work and to an accurate diagnosis of why their campaigns repeatedly fail".

From the evolution deniers and the birthers who scream that the first black president is really not an American at all but, naturally, an African to greenhouse deniers, anti-gays, anti-choicers, and on and on, denying the commitment to rationality and egalitarianism of the Declaration of Independence.

The Academic skeptic, on this view, is someone whose sustained but pre-theoretical commitment to rational investigation undermines their confidence in rationality.

As such, critical thinking becomes the expression of a commitment to judgemental rationality and, in a Christian religious education, is guided by the individual's sensus fidei.

And, second, the instrumental analogue of Carroll's paradox shows that we can't think of this commitment to instrumental rationality as merely another end the agent accepts and could dismiss at will.

Davidson's commitment to the rationality of the mental as one of the cornerstones of anomalous monism (as well as to the account of 'radical interpretation' [see 'Meaning and Truth' below]) led him to take a special interest in the problem of apparently irrational belief and action — something first addressed in 'How is Weakness of the Will Possible?'(1970a).

What I shall argue is that there is indeed a problem with the application of antitrust law to the new economy, but that it is not a doctrinal problem; antitrust doctrine is supple enough, and its commitment to economic rationality strong enough, to take in stride the competitive issues presented by the new economy.

For Huxley though, this was intellectual inconsistency (the greatest of sins): how could he maintain his unshakeable commitment to logic and rationality alongside his clear understanding and experience of this other, equally legitimate aspect, of human thought?