Sentence examples for rational contention from inspiring English sources
But telling malicious and scurrilous lies without remorse or regret is a venom that paralyzes the entire political system, for the simple reason that democratic politics are really just a proceduralized form of argument — my evidence here, yours there; our side's claim like this, yours like that — and when lies are the first premise, the back-and-forth of rational contention becomes impossible.
Such a correlation of hedonicity with rationality supports the contention that rational decisions provide pleasant experiences [ 29] even if less pleasant than those of spontaneous decisions.
Since the beginning of civilization, it seems, our natural appetites have been a source of contention, and rational humans have always been big believers in controlling them by asserting "mind over matter".
Remembering Hegel's contention that "what is rational is actual, what is actual is rational," this manifestation represents an increasing rationalisation and actualisation of God and the individual.
But the implications of such a contention are devastating to rational thought.
I turn now to the ground on which the Court squarely rests its holding: the contention that there is no rational basis for the law here under attack.
BP disputes that contention.
