Since there are now products to help smokers quit, it becomes less risky, as a purely rational proposition, to pick up the habit.
THE ECONOMY After eight dismal years, the president's stimulus bill, his budget and even the flawed bank rescue strategy offer a welcome return to the rational proposition that some problems are so big that the government must step in.
In conclusion, through this study, we proposed that the deciphering of miRNAs targets and associated cell signalling pathways may lead to the rational proposition of combination targeted therapies.
It makes some sense to explain the large increase in the number of young people who, between 1994 and 2004, reported engaging in oral sex as a rational-choice proposition: Oral sex reduces the risk of contracting AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
Moreover, the Renaissance enthusiasm for mathematics had resulted in a profound interest in rational principles, necessary propositions, and innate ideas.
Matters of fact are open to observation and experience, and so all of the tests noted above for determining rational assent to propositions about them are available to us.
Moreover, Pettigrew (2013a) gives an accuracy argument for the Principal Principle, which says that, if an agent is rational, her credences in propositions concerning the objective chances will relate to propositions to which those chances attach in a particular way.
In principle, much of human knowledge is a priori and demonstrable by pure reasoning, but in practice, because the human intellect is finite, it is necessary to rely on experience to confirm these propositions when rational proof is beyond reach.
But the entirely rational might see the proposition as elegantly, if horrifically, efficient.
Let's not leave Freud wriggling on that hook; ask, instead, does his proposition make rational sense?
