Sentence examples for rational truth from inspiring English sources
When will we finally accept the rational truth that defining health care as a public good and providing a single-payer solution is the best way simultaneously to ensure population health and entrepreneurial forms of economic growth?
Eco, however, is at best whimsically sceptical, at worst deliberately misleading: for him, the purpose of a story is to tell ingenious lies rather than to arrive at a drearily rational truth.
In an age of fundamentalisms, he embraced doubt, the possibility that a stupid belief might have something going for it, whereas an obvious and rational truth might get you nowhere.
The rational truth might then be regarded as something of less value than the religious truth of the church.
In other words, factual truth informs political thought just as rational truth informs philosophical speculation" (BPF, 238).
The antagonism for Arendt is between rational truth and well-grounded opinion, since the former does not allow for debate and dissent, while the latter thrives on it.
Like Spinoza, Mendelssohn held that it is not the task of Judaism to teach rational truths, though such truths may be referred to in the Bible.
Theological arguments may draw from revelation by using revealed truths as premises and they may draw from reason by using rational truths as premises.
Even with such qualifications, however, it is apparent that Mendelssohn approaches Judaism and its history with a more or less Deist view that the original, ancient faith confirmed nothing more than rational truths.
Lincoln who married the "self-evident" and rational truths of the Declaration of Independence with the romantic longing to make them a living reality for every American regardless of the accident of her birth, for it is this president who understood the need for every American to listen to "the mystic chords of memory" from our collective past.
A heathen has more in common with a sincere, rational, religious truth-seeker than an atheist whose lack of belief is unquestioned, or has become unquestionable.
