Sentence examples for rational enquiry from inspiring English sources

But his confession reminds us that open-minded rational enquiry has always had its enemies.

Climate change sceptics often position themselves as the antidote to the hysterical, exaggerated claims of climate scientists and environmentalists, adopting the tools and language of "rational enquiry".

But such a view (it has been contended) cannot be seriously entertained, if only because it conflicts with the basic demand for system and order that underlies and governs all rational enquiry, all meaningful thought about the world.

Dense and muscular in its imagery, with an exotic queen, a portentous dream, a distant location and a sinister supernatural event, this is a world hovering somewhere between the poetry of Homer and the rational enquiry of Herodotus, historian of the Persian wars.

Jacobi used this juicy bit of gossip to make a provocative philosophical point: that all rational enquiry, of which Lessing was such a eminent exemplar, ends in the atheism and fatalism of Spinozism.

English-speaking philosophers can be expected to continue to find life's meaning of interest as they increasingly realize that it is a distinct topic that admits of rational enquiry to no less a degree than more familiar ethical categories such as well-being, virtuous character, and right action.

"My defence would be that the 16th century was the time when rational, sceptical enquiry was beginning.

In both the Treatise and the second Enquiry, Hume charged rational intuitionists with having no account of why moral judgments, which are the output of reason, should have such an intimate connection with motivation.

I mean the western tradition of philosophical enquiry, defined as "the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge or conduct".

The presumption of rationality is a presupposition of historical enquiry; but historians must presuppose that agents are rational not in the substantive sense that they hold true beliefs, but in the more minimal sense that they can infer validly from premises to conclusions and act on the practical syllogism.

Avempace concluded his enquiry moving out of the rational and leaving many loose ends.