But with the threats of climate change, violent weather, unconventional warfare and uncontrollable diseases lurking everywhere, it's hard to maintain a rational case against basic preparedness.
"A big challenge for President Obama will be to maintain a rational and tactical public discussion in the midst of this severe downturn.
Subjectivists, who maintain that rational belief is governed by the laws of probability, lean heavily on conditional probabilities in their theories of evidence and their models of empirical learning.
Davidson is thus able to maintain that rational explanation need not involve explicit reference to any law-like regularity, while nevertheless also holding that there must be some such regularity that underlies the rational connection just inasmuch as it is causal.
Even as he begins to lose his teeth, Brundle tries to maintain a rational mindset, treating his unraveling as a science experiment like any other, storing his lost parts ("artifacts of a bygone era...of historical interest only") in the medicine cabinet, which he dubs "the Brundle Museum of Natural History".
One way to prevent the recurrence of such problems is to maintain a rational operations schedule that guarantees no sudden increase in workload for surgeons.
The French are now too weak to do much about it, but they have maintained their rational traditions.
We are inclined to think that Nisbett and colleagues' work represents a potent counterexample to any theory maintaining that rational argument tends to convergence on important moral issues; the evidence suggests that the North/South differences in attitudes towards violence and honor might well persist even under the sort of ideal conditions we have considered.
In order to offer a better explanation of internalization, proponents of the rational choice model maintain that it is rational to internalize a norm.
