Sentence examples for merely rational from inspiring English sources
What "Glengarry" suggests is that people are not merely rational actors.
Great wine is emotional, not merely rational, and romance — taking risks — is an essential feature.
Certainly, one's emotions were engaged at a level beyond the merely rational, the simply conscious.
As in every boom, irrational exuberance was merely rational exuberance run amok.
In fact, this is a triumph of our political system, for what is politics but a way of enforcing ideological values over merely rational ones?
This distinction is often formulated in terms of a distinction between (merely) rational agents, and "reasonable" agents.
These mitigated skeptics thus took the persuasiveness of perceptual impressions under the right perceptual and coherence conditions as defeasible, but rational, evidence for their truth, rather than as merely the ground for their acceptance.
Neither, by the way, rely on the idea that conditionalisation is the only rational way to update beliefs; the arguments go through given merely the permissibility of conditionalising.
Work here is not intended as a merely productive, rational-instrumental activity but, drawing on Hannah Arendt, as a human activity, where the subject itself and the personal attribution of meaning become a central element in the definition.
