Nevertheless, prophecy is not a super-rational phenomenon.
Lucretius's stated aim in his six-book poem, De Rerum Natura, is to free us from fear by enabling us to understand Epicurean philosophy, so giving us the rational explanation of phenomena that have previously attracted irrational explanation and thus created fear of the gods in men's minds – the soul, for example, or thunderbolts.
A definition of theory frequently cited by qualitative scholars is "a set of interrelated constructs, definitions, and propositions that present a rational view of phenomena by explaining or predicting relationships among those elements" (Ulin et al. 2005).
Electronic structure calculations and quantum mechanical theory of electron transfer are utilized to provide a rational for this remarkable phenomenon.
Thomas Hurka has provided one such argument (Hurka 1996): he argues that the phenomenon of rational regret (remainders, or residues) can be made sense of by monists.
This account has a twofold aim: firstly, to provide a rational explanation of the phenomenon of prophecy and, secondly, to defend the eternal validity of Mosaic Law against Christian and Muslim claims to the contrary.
In clinical circumstances, the role of AGE formation was suggested as a rational basis for the phenomenon of metabolic memory in the DCCT cohort [ 59].
A rational explanation for this phenomenon is that hUC-MSCs with detectable mutations usually acquire a growth advantage, so that CNVs at the late passage can be found using aCGH.
The price rise can be explained by people's rational betting that these phenomena will occur.
The rational explanation of natural phenomena will change the way we live in the world.
They were debunking competitors' ads under the slogan, "It's Fun to be Fooled... It's More Fun to Know," alongside rational explanations for mystic phenomena.
