Sentence examples for rational motivation from inspiring English sources

But it's hard to see a rational motivation.

Feuillade does away with all this biographical detail, and with it goes any sense of psychology or rational motivation.

The "rational" motivation of the commandments, which raises insurmountable difficulties for the theologians of philosophical orientation, is in the eyes of the Kabbalists a false problem; the real problem is the fundamental nature of the Torah.

Hemingway is one persistent influence on Petterson, and so is Knut Hamsun — the protagonists of two early Hamsun novels, "Mysteries" and "Pan," could be models for Petterson's unmoored people, especially in the way that Hamsun, like Petterson, at once reveals and obscures rational motivation.

On matters where the speaker has nothing to gain, there is no rational motivation to lie (see further sections 6.4 and 7.1) Lacking rational motivation, the speaker does not lie.

(Here again, it is important to distinguish the purely rational motivation of the parties or their trustees in the original position from that of free and equal citizens in a well-ordered society, who may well be morally motivated by their sense of justice to do what is right and just for its own sake).

Otherwise, in our sterile infatuation with rational motivations and outcomes, we risk resembling those helpless navigators who, De Tocqueville wrote, "stare obstinately at some ruins that can still be seen on the shore we have left, even as the current pulls us along and drags us backward toward the abyss".

Another possible route, is to give up on a unique end (or even a set of reconcilable ends) of scientific inquiry and take actual scientists' rational motivations at face value.

Many considered that although human resources were widely accepted as a factor critical to economic growth, human capital's theorists had taken the analogy too far by turning education into a business-like activity and placing too much emphasis on the economic-rational motivations underlying education decisions.

Some of the so called predicted structures have been already synthesized, not necessarily with the same rational and motivation.

Although we always ascribe our decisions to a rational, conscious-brain motivation, this supposed motivation is never the entire reason for our decisions; in fact, it often has nothing to do with it!