Sentence examples for rigorously rational from inspiring English sources

Rossellini likens the Wagners' private torments to the tensions within Germany itself, its rigorously rational order built on frenzied concealment and the fear of crimes revealed.

Systematically gridded, framed and hung on opposing walls in the gallery, it is at once impressively ambitious, delightfully nutty and rigorously rational (Johnson).

These range from newspaper reports and consular cables regarding the Mary Celeste's fate to Conan Doyle's account of a steamer trip to Africa and the investigations of Phoebe Grant, a rigorously rational spinster journalist who is on the trail of a medium called Violet Petra.

The possibility of contacting the spirit realm is, to the rigorously rational, and to most organized religions, no more credible than the Grand Guignol theatrics -- rattling skeletons, witches on broomsticks -- that are the stuff of America's own day of the dead, Halloween.

It's not just the collapse of communism followed by upheaval in free market capitalism - both of them systems based on theories that were supposed to be rigorously rational.

And although that means that the affects are subject to "geometrical" demonstration of the most rigorously rational kind, it does not mean that the affects themselves answer to rational norms, that is, that they appear in ways that would withstand rational scrutiny.

It's not strictly rational.

John Quiggin has a fun post debunking the notion, all too common among economists, that macroeconomics — the study of inflation, depressions, and all that — is somehow flaky and unworthy of the field's grandeur, that only microeconomics, derived rigorously from rational behavior, is real science.

First Cantor rigorously demonstrated that the set of rational numbers (fractions) is the same size as the counting numbers; hence, they are called countable, or denumerable.

This definition served mathematicians for two millennia and paved the way for the arithmetization of analysis in the 19th century, in which arbitrary numbers were rigorously defined in terms of the rational numbers.

Rational investors ought to assemble rigorously diversified portfolios of stocks and bonds with a mix of risk and return optimized for their own needs and beliefs.