In a time of strain, we must return to the rational and realistic tenets on which Europe was first constructed.
It is, instead, the victory of an orthodoxy that has little to do with rational analysis, whose main tenet is that imposing suffering on other people is how you show leadership in tough times.
The Hypotypōseis reflected other Origenistic opinions contrary to Neoplatonism, such as the noneternity of matter and the rational possibility of Christ's incarnation, tenets characteristic of the Christianized Hellenistic philosophy at the Alexandrian school.
But in defiance of a main tenet of mainstream economics, that people make rational decisions in their best interest, hardly anyone returned the checks.
A fundamental tenet of decision making theory is that rational people are consistent in their choices, regardless of whether the odds are framed as gain or loss.
Consistent with the tenets of cognitive experiential self theory (Epstein, 1994), higher rational scores were significantly associated with openness to experience, conscientiousness, open-minded thinking, superior reasoning, the absence of neuroticism and the lack of superstitious beliefs.
Such a success would invalidate basic Tea Party tenets, so they fight it with everything they have: a few rational points and a barrage of lies, half-truths, and innuendo.
These findings on mental aberrations also undermine the central tenet of efficient market theory, which is that prices are rational reflections of all available knowledge.
But even after reading the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg remained loyal to the tenets of decision theory; in leaking the Papers to the press, he was simply changing jurisdictions, trading in a faith that perfectly informed Presidents will make rational decisions for a faith that a perfectly informed public will force rational decisions on misguided Presidents.
