Search results for "Rational" - New World Encyclopedia
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- In philosophy the idea of choice usually arises in discussions of ethics. Choice can be defined as the rational process of deliberation directed ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 17:10, 10 December 2023
- The essence of a human being is “a rational animal.” ... is considered as an “object” of rational thought, the person is approached ...8 KB (1,089 words) - 04:13, 24 November 2022
- purpose, and "arbitrary" or rational will, which is based on ... can be based on anything other than rational self-interest. Despite this ...9 KB (1,356 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- stressed the unique and essentially non-rational nature of religious reality ... epitome of religion’s irrational and rational sides respectively in Otto’s ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2022
- Wang Chong (Wade-Giles: Wang Chong, 王充) (27 – 97 C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher during the Han Dynasty who developed a rational, secular ...10 KB (1,654 words) - 22:51, 3 May 2023
- essence of the primitive mind, whereas rational thinking, based on logic ... of the "primitive mind" and rational thinking which is the hallmark ...11 KB (1,515 words) - 02:25, 5 November 2022
- The second type of authority is Rational-legal authority. It is that ... to both the validity of traditional and rational-legal authority, and followers ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- principles that could be adopted by all rational agents. ... whatever they might be, bind us as rational moral agents. ...22 KB (3,484 words) - 17:59, 30 November 2023
- == Other rational numbers == Any rational number that cannot be expressed as a decimal fraction ...18 KB (2,501 words) - 09:02, 28 January 2024
- an American psychologist who developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy ... healthy thinking, which he defined as rational thought unadulterated by ...22 KB (3,239 words) - 19:27, 15 March 2024
- can serve one’s own good. Similarly, rational egoism maintains that, in ... elegant solution, however, is to move to rational egoism, which might provide ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- change and becoming happier and more rational as human beings: art of man is the expression of his rational and disciplined delight ...10 KB (1,508 words) - 17:12, 13 February 2024
- notion is that an irrational number divides the rational numbers into two classes, with all the members of one class (upper) being strictly greater ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 20:14, 8 December 2022
- of reason, there are, ironically, several rational arguments made in favor ... Specifically, fideism teaches that rational or scientific arguments ...15 KB (2,241 words) - 17:33, 26 March 2024
- proved Hobhouse to be overly optimistic. Rational advances and external developments ... Theory of the State (1918), The Rational Good (1921), The Elements ...12 KB (1,737 words) - 20:13, 25 October 2022
- the particular fraction. Fractions are rational numbers, which means that ... A vulgar fraction (or common fraction) is a rational number written ...29 KB (4,353 words) - 14:36, 22 January 2023
- strengths and weaknesses of the use of rational-choice theory in interpreting ... working on mathematical sociology and rational-choice theory. ...15 KB (2,152 words) - 16:08, 8 February 2023
- autonomy refers to the capacity of a rational individual to make informed ... Autonomous moral principles are laws which we, as rational beings ...16 KB (2,461 words) - 07:07, 23 August 2023
- 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
