Sentence examples for using rationality from inspiring English sources

And they responded on the scientist's terms, using rationality and history to fight against those arguments, which is the context of this film.

The findings in this study suggest that information from the GP about high cholesterol and risk of cardiovascular disease was reinterpreted in everyday social life, where people navigate according to different 'concerns' (not to be confused with worry), using rationalities for action from different discourses [ 28].

We use rationality to justify our worldviews, but we did not arrive at those worldviews rationally.

All this, I guess, is a rather extended metaphorical way of saying that, yes, I'm drawn to characters who use rationality to flag their irrationality, and who lie to themselves, but in ways that are simultaneously a way of looking directly at what is true, and difficult.

Her debut featured Elijah, a preacher who had lost his faith; The Essex Serpent has William Ransome, a rector trying to use rationality and reason with his frightened flock, but who refuses to see that his faith, in Cora's words, is "all strangeness and mystery", even though he is enlightened and educated.

"Let's face it, he's failed in the effort to be the nonpolarizing president, the one who can use rationality and calm debate to bridge our traditional divides," said Peter Beinart, a liberal essayist who is publishing a history of hubris in politics.

For example, using bounded rationality to investigate seemingly irrational choices by agents.

While you already have the benefit of thinking with reason rather than blind faith, you can use your rationality to defuse many arguments.

If there is sadness in him at all, I think it is a tiny core of profound sadness of the kind that the Buddha understood — that we probably can't use human rationality to make the world all better, and it would be really nice if we were able to".

He entered the cabinet as an exemplar of "American certitude and conviction" who could use "his rationality with facts" to intimidate bureaucratic dissenters, David Halberstam wrote in "The Best and the Brightest" in 1972, after Mr. McNamara had come to his bad end.

No matter which set of axioms we use, the Rationality Condition is controversial.