Even when you eliminate rational warrant for the inference, people still make the association: somehow we can't not.
As atheists, we should state clearly that no religion has any rational warrant, and that many churches and sects promote cruelty, ignorance, and civil rights abuses.
Rorty's position is that we have no notion of rational warrant that exceeds, or transcends, or grounds, the norms that liberal intellectuals take to define thorough, open-minded, reflective discussion.
(van Inwagen 1995, 224 7) The best-developed positive mysterian theory is that of James Anderson, who develops Alvin Plantinga's epistemology so that beliefs in mysteries (merely apparent contradictions) may be rational, warranted, justified, and known (Anderson 2005, 2007).
Fitting attitude (FA) theories propose to analyze value, or some limited range of values, in terms of evaluative attitudes endorsed as fitting or, alternatively, as appropriate, correct, merited, proper, rational, or warranted.
There are subtler features of the EU account of rational desire that warrant investigation; a number of these issues concerning particular EU axioms have been discussed in earlier sections, or will be taken up in more detail in later sections.
It is plausible that if a claim appears contradictory to someone, she thereby by has a strong epistemic "defeater" for that belief, i.e., a further belief or other mental state which robs the first belief of rational justification and/or warrant.
And they seem in a strange way to be almost anachronistic: it is only now, underpinned by our awareness of time's malleability, that such fervent metalwork seems like the act of faith that honoring such a rational sense of time warrants.
That task would require consideration of the various arguments within philosophical theology for the existence of an absolutely perfect being — the ontological, cosmological, teleological, and moral arguments, among others — as well as various arguments that no such arguments are required for such belief to be rational and perhaps even warranted.
Our results show that rational design of antigens is warranted for further development of malaria vaccines.
By explicitly representing conditional dependencies between the volcanological model and observations, BBNs use probability theory to treat uncertainties in a rational and auditable manner, as warranted by the strength of the scientific evidence.
