Sentence examples for reasonably rejected from inspiring English sources

No public reasons are offered, only a plethora of particularistic reasons each of which is reasonably rejected by some citizens.

The only reasons for and against a principle that count when we are judging whether or not it can be reasonably rejected are "various individuals' reasons for objecting to that principle and alternatives to it" (Scanlon 1998, p. 229).

Here one soon runs into the problem that in eschewing full recourse to the truth in political argument, one is apt to come up against some awkward opponents, espousing sometimes unpalatable views, who are happy to render their arguments public, happy to make them subject to 'reasonable rejectability' and happiest of all to assert that their principles cannot be reasonably rejected.

The question the court chose to address in the Fisher case was how convincingly a university must prove that it considered and reasonably rejected all possible "race-neutral alternatives" before turning to the overt use of race in admitting a diverse student body.

So we conclude that the principle imposing b1 on me cannot be reasonably rejected.

A contractualist, on the other hand, could argue that such an agreement could not be reasonably rejected.

The reason for this is that it is not clear why it is any less of an imposition on me when I propose legislation or policies for the society that I must restrain myself to considerations that other reasonable people accept than it is an imposition on others when I attempt to pass legislation on the basis of reasons they reasonably reject.

Faced with these impersonal reasons, the single individual cannot reasonably reject the optimific principles.

For instance, on a convergence view, a religious reason can be justificatory if it is based on reasonable religious evaluative standards that a non-religious citizen might reasonably reject for herself but that she can still acknowledge as reasonable for others.

The constructivist project is to advance our understanding of moral principles and their limits by "clarifying our understanding of the reasons that make familiar moral principles ones that no one could reasonably reject" (Scanlon 1998, 246 247; 2003a, 429 435).

Under the state's real property law, Mr. Belkin said, an owner can reasonably reject a request to assign a lease, with the issue of "reasonability" being determined by a court on a case-by-case basis.