Sentence examples for discourse of rationality from inspiring English sources

Just as some postcolonial novelists used myth, magic, and fable as a stylistic throwing-off of what they considered the alien supremacy of Anglo-Saxon realistic fiction, so numerous feminist novelists took to Gothic, fairy tale, and fantasy as countereffects to the "patriarchal discourse" of rationality, logic, and linear narrative.

Attention has been drawn to the negative consequences of a profit before ethics mind-set, and to the growing criticisms of the way in which the potential moral power of the construct of CSR can be undermined by the dominant discourse of economic rationality.

The scholars attribute this bias to the norms of scientific discourse: "The scientific values of rationality, dispassion, and self-restraint tend to lead scientists to demand greater levels of evidence in support of surprising, dramatic, or alarming conclusions".

There has to be some important sense in which practical discourse does not satisfy the standards of rationality that distinguish authentic cognitive discourse in the literal sense; otherwise the contention that normative discourse is expressive rather than cognitive will lack any significant content.

Throughout his life John firmly but courteously argued not only for objectivity and good manners within science, but also for the superiority of rationality over hunch or prejudice in its social discourse and practical applications.

Economic rationality, conceptions of rationality used in economic theory.

(See below The computational account of rationality).

They would behave with their own kind of rationality.

The man's violence is the heartlessness of rationality.

The movie is a comedy of rationality struggling for control.

There is no guarantee of rationality in these showdowns.