Sentence examples for rationality by from inspiring English sources

We owe a duty to rationality by virtue of being rational agents; therefore, rational moral principle apply to all rational agents at all times.

His actions are informed by his insights about the advantages of perfecting one's rationality by acting in agreement with the rational order of nature.

He retains his rationality by writing.

But that is just my point: defending scientific principles of rationality by appeal to their survival value is to cite practical, not epistemic, reasons in their defense.

Rationality, by this yardstick (and irrationality too, but we'll get to that) is nothing more or less than a servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena.

Instrumental rationality, by virtually any reckoning, is an important, and presumably indispensable, part of practical rationality.

It satirizes the utopian fantasies of mid-20th-century design and suggests, with all the lactating mammary imagery, that the impulse to create environments of holistic harmony may be driven less by formalist rationality than by infantile yearning for the ideally nurturing mother.

For weeks now I've been troubled by the lack of rationality exhibited by many of the protesters attending health care town meetings.

He was distinguished from the other members of the Pergamene school by his comparative sobriety and rationality and by his contempt for the religious magic, or theurgy, to which other members of the school were addicted.

In other words, bounded rationality compound by an operating context plagued by supply chain uncertainty limits the managers' attention to adequately attend to green issues.

Obama assumed that Republicans would act "rationally" where "rationality" was defined by false reason -- on the logic of material self-interest.