Sentence examples for deemed rational from inspiring English sources

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).

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).

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.

Suppose enhanced ecosystem services deliver a narrowly self-interested benefit to the purchaser of certified timber (as is deemed to motivate economically rational people in a market system).

Bauer contended that the existing social order could not be deemed to be thoroughly rational, nor the state to be the institution of freedom that it ought to be, as long as the social question of urban destitution remained unresolved.

However, the highlighting of patients' priorities should not be taken as another reference to the desperate state of IVF patients who are seen as being so focused on babies that they are deemed incapable of making rational observations and choices beyond that of IVF itself (Franklin, 1990).