Sentence examples for rationally committed from inspiring English sources
In the latter case, an agent is said to endorse the law when she is rationally committed to affirming it.
Since we will the necessary and available means to our ends, we are rationally committed to willing that someone sometime develop talents.
The key idea is that a limited and fallible, but rationally committed cognitive agent is supposed to be able to rule out blatantly impossible scenarios, such as worlds where 1 + 1 = 3 or where Hesperus is not self-identical, even when it is unable to rule out subtle impossibilities, for instance, Fermat's Last Theorem's being false.
This alone would rationally commit s to doubting that E8 actually justifies P8.
According to Wright (2011)'s characterisation, a presupposition of a cognitive project is any condition such that doubting it before carrying out the project would rationally commit one to doubting the significance or competence of the project irrespective of its outcome.
A familiar litany of complaints against foreigners are passionately, if not always rationally, argued: They commit crimes.
He remained committed to the goal of understanding the world so as to be able to "act rationally in it and on it" (1990, 2).
He maintains that "the murder was committed by humans for reasons whose sources are found in history and which can therefore be rationally analyzed".
Historians are thus committed to the view that "mind exists" in the very specific sense that reality, when viewed from an historical perspective, comprises actions and is to be explained rationally rather than causally.
