Sentence examples for sorts of rationality from inspiring English sources

There are standardly thought to be four sorts of rationality, each presenting different theoretical problems.

Deduction is the sort of rationality that is the central concern of traditional logic.

"I said to Judi, 'You have to find a way of doing it that reconciles a sort of rationality with the fact that her brain is more or less gone,' " Eyre says.

They propose a non-personal, evolutionary sort of rationality: individuals who develop a sentiment of identification and sense of belonging end up better off in the evolutionary race; hence we have inherited such propensities.

One may question whether the appropriate or intended sense of 'rational' is invoked in these cases in which it seems right to say that rational beliefs can come apart from betting quotients, but such objections just highlight the lack of clarity in most presentations of the argument over what sort of rationality is supposed to be at stake.

She doesn't just think it - that would imply some sort of rationality.

They would behave with their own kind of rationality.

Another sort of nondeductive rationality that is indispensable to at least much of the higher intelligence displayed by human beings is reasoning to a conclusion that essentially contains terms not included in the premises.

His two beliefs directly contradict one another, and yet he is not guilty of any sort of failure of rationality; it is impossible for him to ascertain that the two beliefs are contradictory.

I sort of agree.

In this reading, characterizations of rationality and irrationality take place as a sort of judgment of history.