His books include The Common Mind, Republicanism, and Rules, Reasons, and Norms.
If doctors do not adhere to the stopping rules, reasons for non-adherence will be recorded.
The digits of pi march to infinity in a predestined yet unfathomable code: they do not repeat periodically, seeming to pop up by blind chance, lacking any perceivable order, rule, reason, or design — "random" integers, ad infinitum.
When the rule of law runs counter to the rule of reason, the rule of law should yield.
Morality requires rules because reason is our distinctive property, and "Reason directs us to Rules" (1864, 45).
But we should not substitute the rule of reason for the rule of law as a guiding principle.
According to him, the understanding is the faculty of rules, and reason in the narrow sense gives it the faculty of principles.
"They make many decisions under the delusion that those results are foreordained by rules of reason, but they are not".
Ridiculous, unconstrained by normal rules of reason, taste and decency, and yet, against all the odds, surviving.
There are general rules which reason can lead us to recognize, that specify what is forbidden and what is required to preserve life.
