Sentence examples for rational modes from inspiring English sources
Smith believes that there is a way in which rational modes of thought gradually establish themselves in the popular mind, and to this extent he thinks that there is something in the idea that modernity brings a kind of secularisation - what Max Weber, one of the founders of modern sociology, called the "disenchantment of the world".
And Leontes in The Winter's Tale (which Russell Beale is currently appearing in at London's Old Vic) is an infantile, immature man who, having made an irrational judgment about his wife's supposed infidelity, seeks to cling "to rational modes of behaviour".
In this paper we present a computational model of persuasion, which combines the emotional and rational modes.
As a result, strategy as a rational mode of thought seemed to triumph.
Mutual unselfishness, so Pinker argues, is a rational mode of being because both parties are then better off with regard to the protection of their interests.
The "social" novels of H.G. Wells, which propounded a rational mode of life and even blueprinted utopias, were very quickly exploded by the conviction of man's irredeemable irrationality that World War I initiated and World War II corroborated, a conviction the author himself came to share toward the end of his life.
For instance, modern capitalism is a rational mode of economic life because it depends on a calculable process of production.
Unitarians concluded that a rational mode of living had to be imposed on the poor before they could benefit from education.
The proposed approaches to the study of steel welds can be used for selecting the rational mode of post-weld heat treatment.
With the green building research rising in these years, the rational mode of human beings and nature in China traditional architecture, which contains rich experience about ecological design, should be re-examined.
The secondary process refers to an elaborate and rational mode of thought, which uses elements of reality to select the items from the primary process that are consonant with it and inhibit the ones that are not (Freud, 1895/1956; 1895/1956).
