The crucial question for proponents of generalized 2D semantics is whether such mismatches between hypothetical reasoning and real-life reasoning can be explained as failures of rationality.
In many matters of life, motivated reasoning masquerades as cold reasoning and "rational" thought, when in fact, it is reason that is based on an emotional response.
Aside from the total denial of a personal life, the reasoning behind such policies is flawed.
In a lifetime spent in hotbeds of secularism, I have known perhaps two thoroughgoing rationalists — people who actually tried to eliminate intuition and navigate life by reasoning about it — and countless humanists, in Comte's sense, people who don't go in for God but are enthusiasts for transcendent meaning, for sacred pantheons and private chapels.
As the social sciences and medicine attempt to apply different life science reasoning strategies, similar philosophical issues predictably transfer, but with the potential for more socially damaging consequences.
She described her state of mind shortly after Francis's death: "I hardly know myself now, for I have become like an animal with no true life or reasoning power".
Even more encouraging, the study says prior research may have ignored positive age-related attributes that preserve or even enhance decision-making, like life experience, reasoning ability and accumulated knowledge.
In order to test the hypothesis behind the life history reasoning, we add two new variables to represent astaxanthin concentration in the skin (X s (t)) and gonads (X g (t) during spawning migration.
A deeper understanding of how metabolic systems are changed according to changes in selection pressures is of considerable evolutionary interest, since it links mechanistic and life-history reasoning into more comprehensive evolutionary explanations.
It's in a passage from The Writing Life that the reasoning behind the collection's title becomes clear: "One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time.
