Sentence examples for rational abilities from inspiring English sources

John Locke's doctrine of Earth as human "property" has been central to current presuppositions about our selves: justified on the grounds of our possessing unique, divinely bestowed, rational abilities.

While Nelkin does not herself put weight on the supposed analogy between abilities and dispositions, she shares certain theses with the new dispositionalists, notably that an agent in a 'Frankfurt case' does retain her rational abilities.

In broad brush-strokes, Ryle's argument-strategy against the supposition that generally intelligent or rational abilities can be explained in terms of prior theoretical operations (involving the apprehension of the relevant truths) is to exhibit how the supposition leads to logically vicious regresses.

This picture of how rational abilities in general are to be explained, including the ability to speak a language, was called into question by Ryle in a number of early papers (especially in 1946a, ostensibly reworked as the second chapter of 1949a, and in 1946b and 1950).

The body is the carrier of personhood and as rational abilities are reduced, meaning can also be expressed through body language [ 58].

Additionally, there is a disconnect with complex thinking as early adolescents whose executive functions have yet to develop, have difficulty demonstrating rational abilities of planning, setting priorities, making decisions and weighing consequences of their actions.

The BBC is out of control, was the motion proposed by the Guardian's Emily Bell and independent producer Peter Bazalgette in a session devised by Carlton programme head, Steve Hewlett whose rational ability to cut through the BBC's problems led more than one to wonder why Dyke doesn't replace his strategy department with one man.

On his refusal to break the boycott by shopping at the grocery, he writes: "It may well be that I waited an overly long time to take this step, but I had faith in the court system and in the rational ability of people to come to satisfactory conclusions among themselves.

The book then dives down into the wreck that comes from the separation of high-level rational ability and low-level emotional intelligence.

I believe we will learn how he was exposed to social influences that overcame his rational ability to make his own decisions.

Given the obvious constraints on Kim Jong-il's options, and his long-demonstrated rational ability to avoid cataclysmic behavior, there seems little risk in assuming such a posture.