These ages recur, and each is distinguished by mythology, heroic poetry, and rational speculation, respectively.
Not rational speculation, but sentiment, would effect this transformation.
Schulze argues that this position illegitimately uses the concept of causality to conclude as a matter of strong epistemological requirement, and not merely as a matter of rational speculation, that there is some object — namely, the thing-in-itself — outside of all possible human experience, which is nonetheless the cause of our sensations.
In the opinion that is now before the Court, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a series of same-sex marriage bans, explaining that the states' marriage laws could rest on "rational speculation unsupported by evidence".
A rational speculation is that the shorter DNA fragments and the break ends generated from DFF digestion of the genome may facilitate the entry of DNA into recipient cells and integration into host genome.
Moreover, cholera's history teaches us that the rational alternative to speculation and scapegoating is to uncover the etiology of the disease.
"Leonardo" (Oxford; $26), by the Oxford art-history professor Martin Kemp, is a summary of a life's research; "Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind" (Viking; $32.95), by the biographer and historian Charles Nicholl, is a popular account, dense with social history and rational, high-hearted speculation.
In his seminal "warm little pond hypothesis," which marks the start of all rational "origin-of-life-speculations" (Hazen 2005), we find no trace of supernatural intervention: Darwin proposed an entirely naturalistic concept that decades later became a testable idea (laboratory experiments on prebiotic synthesis of organic molecules such as amino acids etc., see Hazen 2005).
The stock market may have gone way up for quite rational reasons, not irrational speculation.
Burn teases out the odd, and often unnoticed, links between news stories, which languish ignored while feverish speculation obscures rational analysis and contemplation.
