Sentences with phrase «act in a rational way»

It is almost the same as «will» because «can» is being applied to humans and you have to accept that humans simply don't act in a rational way (most of the time).

Not exact matches

Empirically, people rarely act in ways that economists consider rational.

The notion of creation combines rational work with free act, in such a way that contingency is no longer the result of imperfection, but expresses the freedom of the almighty Creator:

Thus we speak of a formula as being true if it represents correctly the way in which certain physical elements act in relation to one another, and a syllogism is said to be true when the final statement in a series of statements is derived by rational necessity from the others in the series.

There is no rational reason that the lives of these men should collide, just as there's no rational reason that a man with everything would act in the way of a desperate man who has nothing or that a man who has achieved everything he could in his career would have nothing.

Rational folks act in such infuriating ways for the policy folks.

It added: «As an urgent next step, we have asked the regulators to explore the possibility of agreeing a common view so that we can act to remove the uncertainty for schools and colleges in England and Wales, and ensure a coherent and rational way forward for all our candidates.»

Whilst there may be a few surprises in store (though I'm not sure that the SA situation has turned out that well), I don't expect humans, collectively, to act in any way that could be regarded as rational.

Collective action dilemma occurs when you have a group of people all acting in a perfectly rational way for their own interests in the short term.

REBT can help clients to strengthen their conviction in alternative rational beliefs by acting in ways that are consistent with them and thus encourage a healthier outlook.