Sentence examples for generally rational from inspiring English sources
People aren't generally rational, after all.
A lawyer, she was generally rational.
As the rational-choice theorists Rodney Stark and Roger Finke argued in their book "Acts of Faith" (2000), human beings, when confronted with imperfect information, behave in a way that is generally rational.
In effect, Mr. Sheldon was saying, the generally rational beings that most economists presume to exist are made, not born — at least as far as their Uber driving is concerned.
Yet, just a few pages later, he observes that the work he did with Tversky "challenged" the idea, orthodox among social scientists in the 1970s, that "people are generally rational".
Yet, just a few pages later, he observes that the work he did with Tversky "challenged" the idea, orthodox among social scientists in the 1970s, that "people are generally rational". The two psychologists discovered "systematic errors in the thinking of normal people": errors arising not from the corrupting effects of emotion, but built into our evolved cognitive machinery.
The roundtable began with a participant making the point that people do not generally make "rational" decisions about higher education.
These anxieties are a kind of survival tool – honed, well-kept and generally more rational than the people who suffer them.
A generally accepted rational model to predict the shear strength of a structural member needs to satisfy Navier's three principles (force equilibrium, strain compatibility, and constitutive equations).
This is not merely the rejection of "trickle-down economics," it is a weakening of the theoretical basis for capitalism -- that free individuals are generally more rational and efficient in making investment decisions than are government planners.
This paper concerns polynomials in g noncommutative variables x="(x1,…,xg), inverses of such polynomials, and more generally noncommutative "rational expressions" with real coefficients which are formally symmetric and "analytic near 0".
