Sentence examples for standards of rationality from inspiring English sources

Also, common principles of causal decision theory advance standards of rationality that are too demanding to apply to humans.

Other philosophers, such as Locke and Hobbes, had also argued that moral requirements are based on standards of rationality.

Deliberative democracies promote an institution of deliberation procedures that meet the standards of rationality, consensus and democratic legitimacy.

QRE is not a refinement of NE, in the sense of being a philosophically motivated effort to strengthen NE by reference to normative standards of rationality.

Locke was sufficiently sceptical about what knowledge we can attain that he constructed one of the first accounts of probable inference to show that belief can meet standards of rationality that make experimental natural philosophy intellectually respectable.

Winch had argued that since standards of rationality in different societies do not always coincide, we should use only contextually and internally given criteria of rationality in our assessment of the systems of belief of other cultures and societies.

Under the influence of the later Wittgenstein, he maintained that it does not make sense to speak of a universal standard of rationality because what is rational is decided by a backdrop of norms governing a given language and form of life.

But when I'm writing for Artforum I feel free to write in a way that is more direct and more responsible to what I feel and less responsible to some standard of rationality".

The exaltation of all cultures as equal and the admiration for "primitive" humans stood in contrast to French cultural chauvinism and the grading of people according to how closely they reached the Enlightenment standard of rationality.

On the other hand, some planning is required, not only as a practical matter but also as a means of fulfilling the universal requirement that the zoning meet some minimum standard of rationality.

The general point of view is not, of course, a standard of rationality; rather, it is a standard of appropriateness.