"I'm not at liberty to reveal their names for commercial-in-confidence reasons".
For we are in a profound crisis psychologically, since the country as it sees itself was founded and prospered on ideas of faith and reason, and faith has now become shattered or authoritarian, or the average American has lost his confidence in reason.
But to my ears, at least, his remarks about freedom of speech, and his expression of confidence in reason and rational debate, had clear echoes of Wilson.
As theologians lost confidence in reason, other thinkers, who had little or no commitment to Aristotelian thought, became its champions, thus furthering the development of modern science.
She still had a career as a photographer: in addition to magazine and corporate work, she had a sideline, which had grown out of a personal art project; she made commissioned portraits of women who, often for therapeutic, confidence-building reasons, wished to be photographed unclothed for the first time.
In the compound in Kathmandu, under the stern tutelage of the mystical trio, the doctor must learn to stifle his ego and submit to the force of ancient wisdom — and he must shed his boundless materialistic confidence in reason, science, and the purely practical causality of physical things, and give himself over to the spirit world.
It is rationalistic because it has so much confidence in reason that, in order to explain observed phenomena, it does not hesitate to postulate the existence of unobservable atoms i.e., of things that are in principle unobservable by the human senses and can be known only by a process of reasoning.
A possible Cartesian reply could be as simple as paraphrasing Luther: Here I stand, as a philosopher with confidence in reason, and as such I can do no other.[6] We will consider another way to respond to this objection later.
In reality as Williams reminds us, any number of non-confidence related reasons could be in play.
Progressives, as the name implies, are forward leaning, with great confidence in reason's ability to solve problems -- rationalism.
