Sentence examples for rationally required from inspiring English sources
Relatedly, they see drinking the toxin in accordance with a prior plan to drink the toxin as rational, indeed as rationally required, given that one did well to adopt the plan; so rationality helps one benefit, rather than hindering one from benefiting, in autonomous benefit cases like the toxin case.
Moreover, many hold that Completeness is not rationally required; that rationality makes demands only on the judgments an agent actually holds, but says nothing of whether a judgement must be held in the first place.
My own view is that it is ensuring the avoidance of self-defeating behavior rather than ensuring self-governance over time that is rationally required, and so diachronic rationality requires a presumption in favor of prior intentions only when this is necessary for avoiding self-defeating behavior (Andreou, forthcoming).
So it might still be rationally required to be a theist.
So, one may conclude, we cannot understand "one is rationally required" as implying "one ought".
Or is one rationally required to be able to make some suggestion about what it is?
Thinking things through rationally requires a lot of effort from the brain.
As the cultural critic Virginia Heffernan writes in her new book Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, "the highest calling for the heaps of devices and services for the production and consumption of images –their cameras and virtual darkrooms functioning in excess of anything we rationally require– is to shore up our families and advertise them to the world and back to ourselves".
Maybe it shouldn't be surprising in shaky economic times that the highest calling for the heaps of digital devices in our lives, with their functioning in excess of anything we rationally require, is to shore up our families, and advertise them to the world, and back to ourselves.
This is not to claim that such disagreements might not rationally require a suspension of judgment about the actual contradicting intuitions (if they are suitably balanced in strength).
Also suppose that any doubt about q would directly rationally require acceptance of a defeater for the justification from e for p, so that this argument from p to q satisfies the antecedent of (LP).
