Sentence examples for rational accounts from inspiring English sources

First, we propose a competitive interaction mechanism that is consistent with the fundamentals of rational accounts of diffusion.

Previous research has offered two potential explanations for these interdependences: social accounts, in which they result from institutional pressures, and rational accounts, in which firms are interdependent as a result of how adoption by rivals affects expectations about the profitability of the technology.

In critically endorsing Kant's idea of transcendental idealism as the science of philosophy, Novalis, too, wishes to see philosophy as a meta-discipline, a rational account of the boundaries of rationality.

I can't give a particularly rational account of the poetry and power of an installation by Joseph Beuys, for example.

Their supposedly sane leader is hardly less ridiculous, putting his faith in this boneheaded crew and offering no rational account of his motives.

As well as the reviews, the book contains a fractious debate with Mr Dennett, and a somewhat more measured one with Mr Chalmers.These will be enjoyable for those who like philosophical polemic, but they do little to dispel the impression that Mr Searle and some of his critics fail to give a rational account of why they disagree.

Of course, the one with experience may be more effective than the inexperienced person who has only the rational account.

Indeed, it has to be examined thoroughly if a rational account is to be rendered of the essential unitary make-up of human nature.

There is a common prejudice that "feelings," a word now sometimes commonly used interchangeably with "emotions," neither owe nor can give any rational account of themselves.

In one place, Aristotle says that what distinguishes experience (empeiria) from technê is that the latter has a rational account, which explains what it does.

At this point his account of the ground is not consistent, but this inconsistency points to the essential issue Schelling is trying to understand, namely whether philosophy can give a rational account of the fact of the manifest world.