Sentence examples for deem rational from inspiring English sources

Foucault's governmentality framework explores the connections between "forms of government and rationalities or modes of thoughts (about governing) which justify, legitimise and make the exercise of government deem rational" (Fimyar 2008, p. 4).

If we are entitled to choose on our own behalf or on our children's behalf only when we are deemed rational, and rationality is defined to mean a consensus with the authorities, then autonomy is a bad joke.

In these ways, then, emotions would be all important to rationality even if they could not themselves be deemed rational or irrational.

They provide a top-down perspective specifying which outcomes of a game are deemed "rational".

This means that a player cannot know that her opponent will not choose an action at a state \(w\) which is deemed rational (according to some choice rule).

Therefore punitive policy towards drug issues is deemed rational, necessary and possessing public support' (143).

But it seems to me that a succinct answer to Justice Scalia's question is that the commerce clause would not limit Congress's ability to regulate broccoli — if members of the House and Senate were crazy enough to pass legislation requiring all of us to eat green vegetables and if that were deemed a rational way to regulate commerce.

And this was from people I deemed reasonable, rational, and fundamentally good - if not right leaning.

So the intemperate person has appetitive or spirited attitudes in competition with the rational attitudes, appetitive or spirited attitudes other than those the rational attitudes deem to be good.

Deeming these folks rational players in the conservative movement deserving of our attention only serves to further undermine the already fragile reputation journalists have among the American people.

Relativists about rationality cast doubt on the universal applicability of one or more of these features of rational thought, and deem them merely local epistemic values.