Sentence examples for rational relation from inspiring English sources

"The challenged regulations bear a rational relation to legitimate penological interests," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for seven members of the court.

We concluded that the provision was born of animosity toward the class of persons affected and further that it had no rational relation to a legitimate governmental purpose.

Writing for himself and six others, Justice Kennedy said that while the regulations, particularly the two-year ban on visits, were "severe," they bore "a rational relation to legitimate penological interests" and did not fall below minimum constitutional standards.

Tagore said that Truth was realized through man: "If there be some Truth which has no sensuous or rational relation to the human mind, it will ever remain as nothing so long as we remain human beings".

In this system all parts of the painting bear a rational relation to each other and to the observer, for the observer's height and the distance he is to stand from the painting are controlled by the artist in laying out his perspective construction.

And the answer isn't simply "Because of a rational relation between the two".

McDowell's central claim is that there can be appropriate rational relations between perceptions and beliefs only if perceptions have conceptual contents, on the grounds that such rational relations can hold only between conceptual states (McDowell 1994a, 2006).

Epistemic intensions reflect rational relations among a person's thoughts that are discernible independently of any empirical inquiry.

We show that nonmonotonic abductive systems preserve a partial version of rational monotonicity and in fact are very similar to rational relations.

How would these adjustments affect the reductio strategy of showing that presumptively contingent relations between physical states would be explained by necessary rational relations and vice-versa given (2) and (3)?

If, however, perception does involve conceptual content, then according to Brewer, we can account for the subject's appreciation of her perception as a reason for a given judgment straightforwardly, since the subject's having a perception with conceptual content already requires that she grasps the rational relations perception with such a content stands to other states with conceptual contents.