Can we rationally arrive at a belief with the generality and necessity characteristic of mathematical theorems by attending to specific diagrams or images?
Just as citizens don't weigh evidence in order to rationally arrive at political views, adherents of social and political movements don't just join a movement because it reflects their already crystallized beliefs.
Confronted with her neurological malaise, Turner was steely and determined to enact the rationally arrived at decision to die: "You know what has to be done and you just do it".
Sports fandom is not arrived at rationally.
Aaron Hinkley notes that a Kantian account of autonomy requires respect for choices that are arrived at rationally, not for choices which are arrived at by idiosyncratic or non-rational means.
Finally, novel herbicides are rationally designed, based on the inferences arrived at in the structural interpretation experiment and predictions of their qualitative and quantitative soil sorption profiles performed, using the built aug-MIA-SPR and Wang's models, respectively.
Byrne suggests that Brownlee arrived at this belief rationally but, once he had done so, "adhered to [it] with an almost religious conviction".
But again, in considering the situation of a person who has rationally reflected upon her situation and arrived at the conclusion that he or she wanted to end their life, the decision to commit suicide can be seen as a paradigmatic manifestation of rational agency rather than as its denial.
And rationally, in a logical fashion, he would have arrived at the correct conclusion that it was because he owed them a week's rent".
But Parfit went to work on it, hacking off a piece here, suturing on a piece there, until he had arrived at a version that seemed to him to combine the best elements of Kantianism and contractualism: "Everyone ought to follow the principles whose universal acceptance everyone could rationally will".
