Sentence examples for possibility of rational from inspiring English sources

With the notion of incommensurability, Kuhn was not so much challenging the rationality of theory choice, as trying to make room for the possibility of rational disagreement between proponents of competing paradigms.

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Snow's cultural tribalism, Trilling argued, impaired the "possibility of rational discourse".

Causality, and with it the possibility of rational understanding, seemed to be suspended in the subatomic world.

Taken together, all these efforts constitute a kind of linguistic sabotage of the infrastructure of reason: if the very possibility of rational argument is submerged in a fog of uncertainty, there are no grounds for debate – and the public can be expected to decide that there is no point in trying to decide the winner, or even bothering to listen.

Richardson argues for the possibility of rational deliberation about ends.

In this paper possibilities of rational energy consumption and energy integration in an existing site for production of specialty chemicals were studied.

They and some of their colleagues represent the possibility of a rational, modern approach to law and civic life, something that has not always flourished in Italy.

In 1923 he stated that the hypothesis of light quanta excludes, in principle, the possibility of a rational definition of the concepts of frequency and wavelength that are essential for explaining interference.

Skepticism of this kind about the nature of the cosmic order and especially about the ultimate origin of the universe places limitations on the possibility of the rational consciousness to authentically ask these questions.

This study provides the possibility of the rational non-precious metal electrocatalysts designing for Li O2 batteries.