Max Weber, a German sociologist, distinguished between religions that express themselves primarily in mythopoeic ways and those that express themselves in rational forms.
To put it another way, most numbers are infinitely long and non-repeating in any rational form of representation.
Transcendental numbers continue forever, as an endless non-repeating string, in whatever rational form you choose to display them, whether as digits or as an equation.
Idealists locate their way of understanding a collective action, the common good and freedom, in a metaphysical theory which claimed to state, in a more rational form: "the essence of the Christianity, and to do this in a way which largely by-passed the historical basis of that religion - a basis which was being increasingly contested during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Second and third order Bézier curves given in polynomial and rational form are compared to the circle and arc based arcs.
The planning department had been set up against the backdrop of fresh scientific, political and also media interest in a "modern" and "rational" form of governance.
The explicit form for the correction is in rational polynomial form, parameterized with numerator and denominator coefficients c i and d i : (partiallogsigma /partiallog T _{V}~ =~ (c_{0} +c_{1}sqrt{T} +c_{2} T /(1+d_{1}sqrT}T} +d_{2} T) (13) Fig. 3 Hard sphere liquid performance.
Men such as Kolo Moser and Josef Hoffmann, who were also closely associated with the Vienna Werkstätte (Workshop), were designing glasses in simple rational forms.
* Re "Murder in Our Midst: Solutions Are Possible," editorial, Dec. 8: Your simplistic solutions are not viable in a society without any rational form of gun control.
"Did you see the way he recontextualized that old-master appropriation in a purposeful deconstruction of rational forms as a postmillennial strategy?" they might ask.
In fact, John Foster claims that: "The only primitive rational form of empirical inference is inference to the best explanation".
