Though you may believe that thinking rationally is beside the point when it comes to superstitions, if you want to beat your obsession with them, then you have to use critical thinking to get there.
Naturally, people may rationally prefer to be under or over-weight in a medical sense, because weight results from personal tradeoffs and choices along such dimensions as occupation, leisure-time activity or inactivity, residence, and, of course, food intake.
So, a subject may rationally judge that is a square when taking her experience at face value not only because her perception involves a nonconceptual way of representing a square but for that reason, since such a nonconceptual way of representing squares is part of the individuation conditions of the concept square.
This problem might be avoided by arguing that the question of when one may rationally trust another may be resolved by a decision theoretic calculation, factoring in the extent to which one's evidence supports the potential trustee's trustworthiness and the utilities or disutilities of the possible outcomes.
The weak version argues that attitudes, in principle, may sometimes be rationally ungovernable.
Over the past decade, research interest in the application of biomedical nanotechnology to the diagnosis and treatment of disease has grown significantly, and physiological barriers to nanoparticle delivery may now be rationally overcome.
Taken together, our data suggest that the T. gondii expression system may provide a new tool for cytokine gene expression and that parasites engineered to express a cytokine gene may be rationally designed for use in studies on immune responses to T. gondii.
"It means that even while we debate physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia rationally, we may be animated by unacknowledged images that give the practices a certain gendered logic".
There is no universally accepted definition of administrative law, but rationally it may be held to cover the organization, powers, duties, and functions of public authorities of all kinds engaged in administration; their relations with one another and with citizens and nongovernmental bodies; legal methods of controlling public administration; and the rights and liabilities of officials.
Landslide risk may be rationally evaluated and mitigated with probabilistic approaches.
