Sentence examples for rational inquiry from inspiring English sources
It stood for rational inquiry, for skepticism about dogma and mystery, and for religious toleration.
A culture of liberty, tolerance, and rational inquiry: that would be a good idea.
No rational inquiry may 'beg the question' by presupposing the results of that inquiry.
But to denounce al-Ghazali as an enemy of rational inquiry, and then refuse to investigate in any depth what he actually said, is itself a way of rejecting the spirit of rational inquiry.
His view reflects a spirit of system and rational inquiry that had begun to emerge in Europe.
That concluding phrase is a stunning reversal of about two-and-a-half-thousand years of rational inquiry.
Western philosophy has always harboured a tradition which regards scientific inquiry as a paradigm for rational inquiry in general.
The book closes with a consideration of the inherent limitations of rational inquiry into the realm of group-identity.
Very probably, apart from the initial Greek determination to study all things in the spirit of dispassionate and rational inquiry, there would be no social sciences today.
Humanism not only has survived each of these sequential demystifications; they have made it stronger by demonstrating the power of rational inquiry on which humanism depends.
When he is not organising QED, Marshall works for the Good Thinking Society, a non-profit organisation established by the science writer Simon Singh that promotes rational inquiry.
