Search results for "Rational" - New World Encyclopedia
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- truths are only discoverable by a non-rational, quasi-sensory capacity ... and feeling, as opposed to reason or rational intuition. While therefore ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:22, 31 July 2023
- This standard of rational persuasion is not as well-defined as it in the case of deductive arguments. In many cases it is clear that an argument ...9 KB (1,514 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- Anticlaudianus, a didactic poem giving rational support to the tenets of ... Ars Fidei Catholicæ, a refutation, on rational grounds, of the errors of ...11 KB (1,642 words) - 04:25, 17 June 2023
- are here divided into two camps: rational intuitionists and perceptual ... In contrast with rational intuitionism, perceptual intuitionism holds ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 04:32, 22 March 2024
- with that of a mother, with no purely rational measure to decide which is preferable. Another example occurs in environmental ethics, when the ...10 KB (1,489 words) - 08:06, 24 November 2022
- :existing fully as God, and fully as man with a rational soul and ... :For as the rational soul and body are one person, so the one Christ ...10 KB (1,699 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- an informal argument is fallacious, its rational persuasive power is greatly ... In an appeal to emotion, one presents an emotional, rather than rational ...14 KB (2,254 words) - 00:35, 25 March 2024
- of his day. Shestov rejected any rational basis for God. He abhored ... and not comprehensible through logical or rational inquiry. Shestov maintains ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 22:05, 25 October 2022
- Ancient Greek philosophers pursued the ultimate rational principle ... sphere of morality. Human beings have a rational reason to believe in them ...15 KB (2,179 words) - 06:35, 14 June 2023
- allow for an afterlife of the individual rational soul, to carry responsibility ... be the fullest actualization of a person as a rational being. ...13 KB (1,953 words) - 07:15, 23 August 2023
- and "reason." It indicates a rational explanation in contrast ... of this, is also open to all that is truly rational. ZENIT-The World ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 21:00, 3 November 2022
- kind of monad, termed a dominant, or rational, monad, which included consciousness ... ideas which revived an interest in rational metaphysics and laying the ...11 KB (1,598 words) - 19:53, 9 November 2022
- such entities as zero, negative numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers ... ===Rational numbers=== A rational number is a number that can be expressed ...37 KB (5,685 words) - 00:43, 17 November 2022
- that the universe existed according to a rational and purposeful order (a ... that the universe existed according to a rational and purposeful order (a ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- of conduct that would be accepted by all rational people under certain idealized ... of morality--according to which all rational agents ought to follow the ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- as "Zu rate." Zu rate is a best rational approximation to π, and ... The next "best rational approximation" to π is \frac{52163}{16604} ...12 KB (1,719 words) - 06:13, 13 June 2023
- The surgical procedures in the papyrus were quite rational given the time period (Rutkow 1988), and the use of magic for treatment is resorted ...9 KB (1,436 words) - 23:57, 12 February 2024
- Absurdism is a philosophical perspective which holds that the efforts of humanity to find meaning or rational explanation in the universe ultimately ...15 KB (2,329 words) - 06:46, 14 June 2023
- more broadly to reason or “the rational.”) Although logic is an ... thinking which is most essential to human rational thinking as a type of associative ...15 KB (2,212 words) - 01:41, 8 December 2022
- and cognitive processes of making rational human choices: decisions. related, or poorly detailed. The task of rational decision-making, said Simon ...18 KB (2,630 words) - 09:55, 22 January 2024
