Sentence examples for reasoning person from inspiring English sources

A religious person is a twit who thinks that a supreme being created the universe while a reasoning person concludes that everything evolved from an, as yet unknown, starting point which was unlikely to have been a sentient omnipotent and benign (are you kidding?) intelligence.

You cannot be a reasoning person and not ask why?

During the roughly 45-minute tape recorded semi-structured interview, the interviewer uses moral dilemmas to determine which stage of moral reasoning a person uses.

The main difference with criminal incarceration is that the detention is not the result of a trial, but based on the reasoning that persons awaiting their expulsion while not in custody run a risk of their absconding [ 24, 25].

Make sure you have stated your reasoning, and that person understands, your reason.

If somebody regularly reports to work at one company and takes orders from its managers, their reasoning goes, that person is an employee.

The Court of Appeals in Eisentrager had found jurisdiction, reasoning that "any person who is deprived of his liberty by officials of the United States, acting under purported authority of that Government, and who can show that his confinement is in violation of a prohibition of the Constitution, has a right to the writ".

Recently a Universal spokeswoman declined to discuss the studio's reasoning, but one person who was briefed on the matter said the main issue was a budget then pegged at about $35 million, too much for a company that had spent heavily on the vain pursuit of Oscars for "Frost/Nixon" and other films.

Such accounts are a problematic basis for a general account of fallacies insofar as what appears to be good reasoning to one person may not appear so to another.

Gassendi understands this reasoning as one person's inference from his or her indubitable recognition of cognitive activity, to the claim that he or she exists as the selfsame seat of such activity.

There's a relevant term in cognitive science called "motivated reasoning", where the person unconsciously seeks to retain a certain belief even when presented with evidence to the contrary.