Sentence examples for unreasonable rigidity from inspiring English sources
While the Rule of Conditionalization is generally presented as demanding that agents satisfy invariance for each proposition, and various authors have rightly complained that this demands an unreasonable rigidity of belief (Bacchus, Kyburg, and Thalos 1990; Levi 2002), Jeffrey does not treat the condition as a strict requirement on rational belief change (Jeffrey 2004).
4. Excessive rigidity and stubbornness.
The paradox of the human experience is that we are built for rapid and sudden adaptation, but we want everything perfectly organized and in its place, and we want it to all stay that way or else! Just because we are created to go with the mutable flow does not make us immune to primitive responses such as rigidity, fearfulness, inflexibility and unreasonable stubbornness.
By giving Yosra what amounted to a "no way!" to what seemed, in the moment, an unreasonable request of me, I was showing rigidity -- another way of describing fundamentalism -- of my own.
Repetition produces rigidity.
"The risks became unreasonable".
That is not unreasonable.
But what is unreasonable?
Makes them look unreasonable.
