Sentence examples for rational subject from inspiring English sources

The modern philosophical construct of the rational subject projects a self that is not prey to ambivalence, anxiety, obsession, prejudice, hatred, or violence.

The expression Pr(x)—called the unconditional probability of x is interpreted by the Bayesian as supplying the degree of credence of a rational subject s in x.

With respect to reflective access conditions, it was noted earlier that Evidentialists cannot require that a rational subject always base beliefs on sufficient evidence that she knows or justifiably believes she has, for fear of an infinite regress.

This dual nature of the human condition contests the radical independence of the rational subject of Kantian autonomy or homo economicus by placing ambiguity at the heart of human experience.

Second, they all agree that, in "standard" cases, rational agents update their confidences by conditionalization; that is, a rational subject's confidence in a proposition p at a time t1 is her confidence in p given q at t0 < t1 in cases in which the only change to that subject's mental state from t0 to t1 is that she learned q in symbols, Crt1(p)=Crt0(p | q).

"I leave that to Mama, who is going to write you on rational subjects".

Some feminist philosophers argue that pornography violates the moral imperative to treat people as autonomous, rational subjects.

Attacking the idea that we must acknowledge the world's normative constraint on our belief-systems if we are to be rational subjects, Rorty has drawn a great deal of criticism that takes science, particularly natural science, as its chief reference point.

But the commission report breezily responds, "illness, especially if it is psychic, should not be an obstacle to making a decision on the basis of rational reasoning," subject to a careful physician's approval.

"If we do not indulge the presumption of impartiality on the part of the finder of fact, then it's no longer rational to subject it to that lax a standard of review," Judge Sentelle said.

The other person is not seen as a person with a certain set of desirable characteristics, or as identified with a function, or even as a rational, autonomous subject; rather he or she is experienced as a "thou," a person with whom I identify and am one with on the path of life.