A legitimate challenge is presumably a rational challenge.
At best, their culture is seen as a quaint leftover from a previous, presumably less rational, less utilitarian, and less humane, past.
Paradoxically, if we were to adopt this – presumably most rational-approach to the practice of medicine, we would likely see a further explosion of inappropriate and wasteful use of health care resources [ 18, 21].
And though he never labeled Mill a "rational" utilitarian, presumably he regarded him as one.
By observing this rule of choice consistently over time, a rational chooser presumably should maximize his or her individual expected utility, and hopefully actual utility as well.
For example, Korsgaard (2004) regards infants and severely cognitive impaired human beings as rational agents – presumably in the sense of being members of the kind "rational agents" – and hence deserving of respect.
Presumably, we all have separate rational souls, otherwise the idea of reward and punishment of rational souls makes no sense.
It is presumably true that an ideally rational thinker will have a set of beliefs that are closed under defeasible, as well as deductive, consequence.
Presumably, then, medicine includes a rational formula or definition of health and its privation, disease; hence, it is a capacity to produce either of these opposite states.
Plutarch appears to maintain that the world soul is capable of being molded by receiving the intelligible Forms, which is how presumably the world soul becomes rational (De an. procr.
