Sentence examples for rational doubt from inspiring English sources

That is, the preambles show that there is good evidence for the existence of God and that belief in God is reasonable, but they cannot establish God's existence with absolute certainty or beyond rational doubt.

In her lively and well-written book, "Fatal Purity," Ruth Scurr, a historian and literary critic, confesses her sympathy for Robespierre, admitting that she has given him "the benefit of any rational doubt" and has "tried to be his friend and to see things from his point of view".

He shared many of the psychological abysses and swervings of his characters, veering between rational doubt and violently irrational (and highly anti-semitic) Christianity; he was subject to extraordinary mood-swings, only accentuated by his epilepsy and what was almost certainly manic-depression.

For the philosopher, free speech allows people to engage in rational doubt, and to grow in their prudential duties.

The upright democratic allies on the ground only existed in numbers too weak to count politically or militarily; nor could the CIA in Vietnam conjure them out of thin air; and a failure of rational doubt set the United States on the long downward spiral of that war.

My rational doubts were swept aside by the power of Hall's production and Branagh's mesmerising performance.

All of these forces conspire to prevent us from gathering sufficient information, analyzing it effectively, and using it exclusively to come to "rational" decisions (I doubt Mr. Spock ever sent inappropriate photos through his communicator).

Relativists about rationality cast doubt on the universal applicability of one or more of these features of rational thought, and deem them merely local epistemic values.

Liv believes him, but as the extraordinary events of the summer unfold, she begins to doubt her rational views on this, and everything else.

"Another way of putting it would be that in order to find the essential element of criminal intent beyond a reasonable doubt, a rational juror would have to speculate".

This is perhaps debatable in the case of subjective probability, for perhaps it is sometimes possible to rationally not be fully confident in a necessary truth (for example, if identity statements are necessary if true, it may yet be rational on occasion to doubt a true identity claim).