Of course there are both theistic and nontheistic religions, the latter placing more emphasis on what adherents view as rational beliefs.
Within its own historical context, physiognomonics was viewed as a rational science as good as, or perhaps even better than, the new anatomy, since it could be used for universal description and as a means to identify character traits.
The Kozeny-Carman equation is viewed as a rational hydraulic model for bentonite because it incorporates microstructure parameters such as specific surface area in addition to macrostructure parameters such as the void ratio.
Bankruptcy has been viewed as a rational way of settling unpayable debts, ever since it was invented 1706 by ministers to Queen Anne.
On the basis of these findings, IGF-IR has come to be viewed as a rational therapeutic target in pancreatic cancer, prompting clinical investigations of IGF-IR inhibitors.
Because TCTP is regarded as an oncogene and is up-regulated in tumors, reducing the TCTP levels or inhibiting its activity, are viewed as alternative rational approaches in cancer therapy.
However, only as a consequence of our recent appreciation that bioactive lipids are bona fide signalling molecules have key members of the functional lipidome been viewed as targets for rational drug design.
Now the instrumental perspective on technology implies that the value that is at issue in the design process viewed as a process of rational decision making is not the value of the artifacts that are created.
His work showed, among other things, that it was flawed to view investors as rational actors.
To this end, the sequential decision model is more fruitfully viewed as a tool for helping determine rational choice at a particular time, just like the static decision model.
