Sentence examples for rational from from inspiring English sources

Mr. Plaitt suggests that sites like Bad Astronomy and Crank Dot Net provide a "process to separate the rational from the irrational".

Confronted with its imminence, the membrane that separates the rational from the irrational ruptures, and we enter the same space we occupy when we surrender to fable and myth.

So each time, in order to be seen to be doing something, the government prods the railways into extra safety spending.It may be rational from Railtrack's point of view, too.

This letter expressed his consent to the "hard new law, rational from Germans' point of view", which excluded Jews from university teaching, including Gerhart Husserl, son of the illustrious philosopher of the same name, who as a Jew was stripped of his civil law chair at the university, despite being a wounded veteran of the first world war.

Rather than getting involved in detailed policy discussions, which almost invariably involve balancing benefits against costs, it can seem perfectly rational, from the candidates' perspective, simply to bash anything associated with President Obama, promise a chicken (or tax rebate) in every pot, and fudge the details.

Costa's devotion to the spiritual loam of the long-enduring has a Faulknerian charm, as does his tracing of broad tectonic historical movements in the minutiae of ordinary lives and his overarching view of the transition from agrarian to urban, from magical to rational, from subsistence to a toehold on affluence.

On that picture, the promising convention is composed of rules that are productive of the best circumstances, and as such deserve obedience not from rational, but from moral duty (cf. Rawls 1955).

We hope to show you how you to separate fact from fiction and rational reason from irrational conspiracy.

From a research interests perspective, this may be rational, whereas from a respect for the child point of view, this would be inappropriate.

It can be agonizing to separate rational thought from emotion.

And phone hacking and Rupert Murdoch do not elicit rational reactions from Labour activists and MPs.