Search results for "Rational" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Anticlaudianus, a didactic poem giving rational support to the tenets of ... Ars Fidei Catholicæ, a refutation, on rational grounds, of the errors of ...
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  • are here divided into two camps: rational intuitionists and perceptual ... In contrast with rational intuitionism, perceptual intuitionism holds ...
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  • with that of a mother, with no purely rational measure to decide which is preferable. Another example occurs in environmental ethics, when the ...
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  • :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 ...
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  • an informal argument is fallacious, its rational persuasive power is greatly ... In an appeal to emotion, one presents an emotional, rather than rational ...
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  • of his day. Shestov rejected any rational basis for God. He abhored ... and not comprehensible through logical or rational inquiry. Shestov maintains ...
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  • Ancient Greek philosophers pursued the ultimate rational principle ... sphere of morality. Human beings have a rational reason to believe in them ...
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  • allow for an afterlife of the individual rational soul, to carry responsibility ... be the fullest actualization of a person as a rational being. ...
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  • and "reason." It indicates a rational explanation in contrast ... of this, is also open to all that is truly rational. ZENIT-The World ...
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  • kind of monad, termed a dominant, or rational, monad, which included consciousness ... ideas which revived an interest in rational metaphysics and laying the ...
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  • such entities as zero, negative numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers ... ===Rational numbers=== A rational number is a number that can be expressed ...
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  • that the universe existed according to a rational and purposeful order (a ... that the universe existed according to a rational and purposeful order (a ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • as "Zu rate." Zu rate is a best rational approximation to π, and ... The next "best rational approximation" to π is \frac{52163}{16604} ...
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  • The surgical procedures in the papyrus were quite rational given the time period (Rutkow 1988), and the use of magic for treatment is resorted ...
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  • Absurdism is a philosophical perspective which holds that the efforts of humanity to find meaning or rational explanation in the universe ultimately ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • and cognitive processes of making rational human choices: decisions. related, or poorly detailed. The task of rational decision-making, said Simon ...
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  • searches and seizures; and so on. It is a rational continuum which, broadly ... between members of the same sex. Using rational basis review, the Court ...
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  • of the character and position of rational agents in the universe. He argues that all that is seen in nature is framed so as to avoid and reject ...
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