Sentence examples for rational apprehension from inspiring English sources

I met someone who was definitely apprehensive, but with the rational apprehension of a person in his situation.

While this result is consistent with traditional philosophical empiricism and rationalism, which emphasized the individual's sense experience or rational apprehension as foundations of knowledge, it does have the consequence that we do not know most of what we think we know.

The general reluctance to take the North Koreans to task can be partly attributed to a rational apprehension of the military realities.

So, conscience does not motivate in and of itself, nor does the rational apprehension of one's moral duty, but Locke identifies a species of pleasure distinct from divine sanctions that makes his notion of acting for conscious' sake perfectly consistent with his hedonism: to act for conscious' sake is to be motivated by, and take pleasure in, acting in accordance with one's moral duty.

The term mysticism applies to the attempt to establish direct contact, independently of sense perception and intellectual apprehension, with the divine a reality beyond rational understanding and believed to be the ultimate ground of being.

While human beings have many appetites informed by sense cognition of the world, they also have rational appetite that is informed by an intellectual apprehension of the world and the goods within it appropriate to human flourishing.

Laurence BonJour thinks that rational insight is an immediate, non-inferential grasp, apprehension, or "seeing" that some proposition is necessarily true (BonJour 1998: 106).

Irrationalism, 19th- and early 20th-century philosophical movement that claimed to enrich the apprehension of human life by expanding it beyond the rational to its fuller dimensions.

They are assigned specific characteristics that control their action such as moving in a neighborhood, making rational choice to maximize their gain while minimizing the risk of apprehension from interaction with other residents of the neighborhood.

Then it's on to the Kantian sublime: stretching a point rather, Smith discovers Kant's description of the vertiginous apprehension of forces that dwarf reason in your first frenchie: "kissing becomes silence, rational speech cut off, causing us literally to be dumbstruck".

Just as the knowledge of nature must be sought from nature alone, so must the knowledge of Scripture an apprehension of its intended meaning be sought from Scripture alone and through the appropriate exercise of rational inquiry.