Sentence examples for rational explication from inspiring English sources

The causes of the war resist rational explication.

Nothing pleasures a Lib Dem more than a calm and rational explication for the rage they feel within.

Generalized truth values have a strong intuitive background, especially as a tool for the rational explication of incomplete and inconsistent information states.

I § 172 Westerink) distinguishes two tendencies: Plotinus and Porphyry preferred philosophy, which makes us understand the divine principles of reality through rational explication, while others like Iamblichus and his followers, Syrianus, and Proclus, gave priority to hieratic practice or theurgy (theourgia, hieratikê [sc. technê]).

Two branches of the Circle's constructivist tendency can thus be distinguished: Carnap's rational reconstructions and formalist explications and Neurath's and Frank's empirically informed and practice-oriented reconceptualizations.

These principles are simply a priori explications of the rational or moral sense possessed by most humans.

Thus we find in apparent competition different conceptions of post-metaphysical philosophy: the projects of experiential meaning determination, of formal rational reconstruction and of naturalistic explications of leading theoretical and methodological notions.

Not least among the important lessons of Hempel's enduring legacy is the realization that the standards of science cannot be derived from mere descriptions of its practice alone but require rational justification in the form of explications satisfying the highest standards of philosophical rigor.

Ibn 'Arabî marks a watershed in the discussion of both sorts of Return, not least because his explications of the mundus imaginalis allowed him to provide rational arguments for issues like bodily resurrection that, according to Avicenna, could not be understood by reason but can only be accepted on the basis of faith (Avicenna, al-Shifâ', 347 48; Avicenna, al-Najât, 3 291).

Explication is a necessary precondition to discovery, and it consists in a partly empirical, partly rational process.

Descartes was completely puzzled by just this rational character and semantic coherence of thought processes so much so that he failed to even imagine a possible mechanistic explication of it.