Sentence examples for rational means from inspiring English sources

If knowledge of reality cannot be gained by rational means, then one must turn to faith.

A quadratic fit method was proposed, which provided a rational means to estimate the OCTs.

He maintained that any attempt to establish a conclusion by rational means ultimately "deconstructs," or logically undermines, itself.

"The mere fact that you could not defend them by any rational means is evidence that these were nothing more than sales hype".

Although 99.9% are explained by rational means, there are too many incidents and places that have a dreadful feeling about them, a sense of evil.

It is high time that the structure of Britain's armed forces was decided by more rational means than rancorous and myopic bargaining between the services.

Aaron Hinkley notes that a Kantian account of autonomy requires respect for choices that are arrived at rationally, not for choices which are arrived at by idiosyncratic or non-rational means.

And we asked ourselves finally, in our discussion of norms and basic social structures and censorship, what the proper role for non-rational means of persuasion, including mass cultural influences such as cinema, television and music, is in a democratic society.

In this story, however, the new citizens at first lack the capacity to discern the good reasons that support the new laws and the lawgiver has to persuade them by non-rational means to legislate in their own best interests.

The Oxford English Dictionary tells us that prior to the 20th century the term "conjecture" was used to connote not a hypothesis reached by non-rational means, but rather one which is "unverified," or which is "a conclusion as to what is likely or probable" (as opposed to the results of demonstration).

Intuition is the access of knowledge through non-rational means.