Sentence examples for rules of rationality from inspiring English sources
So anyone who doubts my basic epistemic principles is going to appear to me as someone who doubts the rules of rationality.
Relativism ensues because languages and their rules of rationality vary a great deal.
Perception of similarity cannot be reduced to rules, and a fortiori cannot be reduced to rules of rationality.
This rejection of rules of rationality was one of the factors that led Kuhn's critics to accuse him of irrationalism regarding science as irrational.
For to deny that some cognitive process is the outcome of applying rules of rationality is not to imply that it is an irrational process: the perception of similarity in appearance between two members of the same family also cannot be reduced to the application of rules of rationality.
The latter was thus designated 'the context of discovery', leaving the rules of rationality to decide in the 'context of justification' whether a new hypothesis should, in the light of the evidence, be added to the stock of accepted theories.
Feyerabend thinks, however, that science must be protected from a "rule of rationality", identified with strict adherence to scientific method: such rules only suppress an open exchange of ideas, extinguish scientific creativity and prevent a free and truly democratic science.
Some authors see this formal principle of equality as a specific application of a rule of rationality: it is irrational, because inconsistent, to treat equal cases unequally without sufficient reasons (Berlin 1955-56).
Particularly, the design of cognitive rules corresponds with the principle of rationality; its perspective is focused on the interaction among the agents.
Allegedly, the scientific method encapsulates the rules of scientific rationality.
All our scientific developments, the importance of reason, religious tolerance, the rule of law, rationality, a secular state, progress in human rights and our atheism can be traced back to this momentous period of intellectual history.
