Sentence examples for rational actions from inspiring English sources
Other new institutionalists eschew deductive models in which outcomes are explained by reference to rational actions.
Some evolutionary psychologists and economists explain assault, rape, and murder as rational actions, benefitting the perpetrator or the perpetrator's genes.
Insects in vast, grinding systems, carrying out antlike, apparently rational actions with no human idea of the ends they serve?
On the debit side, a sequence of rational actions will often end in complete delusion, as the German poet Christian Morgenstern told his Wilhelmine readers.
"The rational actions taken by even the strongest financial institutions to reduce exposure to future losses have caused significant collateral damage to market functioning," Mr. Geithner said in a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations.
Measured risk has increased more quickly than many institutions have been able reduce it, and attempts to reduce it have added to volatility and downward pressure on prices, further increasing measured exposure to risk … The rational actions taken by even the strongest financial institutions to reduce exposure to future losses have caused significant collateral damage to market functioning.
Although social scientists might use such models of completely rational action to assess the rationality of everyday actors, Schutz cautioned social scientists that if their task were to describe life-world actors, they also needed to be wary of replacing the viewpoint of everyday actors with a fictional, non-existing world constructed by scientific observers.
False binaries just feed the cycle of irrationality, and rational discussion could even presage rational action, you never know.
Here desire as well as belief is relevant, since successful rational action is action that satisfies one's desires.
The message from within the Élysée is that rational action, not emotion, must drive the political response.
"Given that the full database file is downloadable from hundreds of sites there is only one internally rational action," the message said.
