Sentences with phrase «for irrationality»

You make a very clear well reasoned case for the irrationality of using current numerical climate models fitted to past average temperature data to predict or project future average temperatures let alone temperature distributions or extreme weather events.

If the universe is sane and rational, there is no place for irrationality.

«It can't be understood» is the basis for irrationality in FALSE FAITH.

If abstractive reason always falls short of reality, philosophy degenerates into mindless chatter and reality soon teaches the wayward the price paid for irrationality.

If so, you must be a strong advocate for irrationality.

This is not, however, a simple exchange of top for bottom, of reason for irrationality, of knowledge for ignorance.

Not exact matches

For example, a company might have $ 5.50 per share in cash, but due to the market's irrationality... or some other temporary factor... the company is trading for... let's say... just $ 3.75... a 31 % discount to its cash backiFor example, a company might have $ 5.50 per share in cash, but due to the market's irrationality... or some other temporary factor... the company is trading for... let's say... just $ 3.75... a 31 % discount to its cash backifor... let's say... just $ 3.75... a 31 % discount to its cash backing.

This is precisely the type of behavior that is only seen during periods of extreme irrationality when financial markets are at their peak... and poised for a serious correction.

Given that its price remains lackluster and greatly disappointing, rich gallows humor has emerged as a form of therapy for those attempting to deal with the irrationality of it all.

Heaven on Earth: The Varieties of the Millennial Experience by Richard Landes Oxford, 520 pages, $ 35 This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has trouble making sense of the intrusion of irrationality.

The case for socialism derives from the irrationality of this state of affairs.

To be sure, those who, following Kierkegaard, see here only irrationality and contradiction — for how can one reconcile God's earlier promise that Isaac would carry the covenant with God's current demand for Isaac's destruction?

Both are irrational... religion, which is force fed to Americans from childhood, creates the mental / emotional conditions for other irrationalities like fear and hatred of people who are different in some way.

At the same time, much postmodern thought perpetuates Romanticism's narcissistic glorification of emotion and irrationality, except now without the romantics» esteem for tradition and the people.

When as Pope Benedict XVI he addressed irrationality in Islam at his September 2006 Regensburg address, and personally received the convert Magdi Allam into the Church in 2008, I saw in these actions hope for a rebirth of the decaying West.

In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport.

Perceptions of proliferating irrationality are not good for morale, so it should not be surprising that constitutional discourse seems to be experiencing a kind of malaise.

This is a disturbing and momentous book, for modern political thinking has trouble making sense of the intrusion of irrationality.

That quibble aside, Collins classifies the flowers according to themes: the meaning of truth, intellectual devotion to God, the problem of evil and suffering, the cry for justice, the concord between science and faith, the possibility of miracles, the experiences of longing and mysticism, love and forgiveness as pointers to God, and the irrationality of atheism.

But it is precisely the significance of that decade that the irrationalities and horrors of modern history were borne in upon Americans so seriously that for the first time mass disaffection from the common understandings of American culture and society began to occur.

Even the apparent exceptions, such as Nietzsche, are not really such, for despite the glorification of an immorality which, in some respects, is regarded as irrationality, his call for the superman is an appeal to true reason against the false reasoning of the philosophic schools and the churches.

On the other hand, there are those who wrongly interpret this search for the truth, leading them to irrationality and fanaticism; they close themselves up in «their truth», and try to impose it on others.

Accordingly we find «evolutionism» interpreted thus optimistically and embraced as a substitute for the religion they were born in, by a multitude of our contemporaries who have either been trained scientifically, or been fond of reading popular science, and who had already begun to be inwardly dissatisfied with what seemed to them the harshness and irrationality of the orthodox Christian scheme.

That's the Indians right now, caught between the pragmatic desire to build something sustainable and the rational irrationality that comes with capital - G Going For It.

The team cries for young, atheletic and stronger DM cost of artea's age and Flamini irrationality yet nothing is done.

It is sheer irrationality for anyone to just utter statements like» I am tired of always finishing fourth ----» Such irresponsible statements can only be supported by people who lack objectivity and logic.

Hope, as is rises just now, when we won, when I tell myself, come on, it's not impossible, it's NEARLY impossible, that margin of error in an otherwise solid judgement based on facts, the irrationality behind it, the fact that right now I am happy for this victory and I'm already starting to build up hype for the next game, and put pressure on myself so I can utterly be even more disappointed when the lads screw it up.

That irrationality is there because of what Arsenal has represented and meant to me in my life so far, not because of the current mess the club is creating for itself.

However, I am reminded of our conversations about birthday cupcakes, sneaking carrots in smoothies, and a few others where you've insisted on creating a «kid - friendly» version of life that bears no resemblance to the real thing for your kids with respect to mental and emotional challenges such as refusing a cupcake when everyone else is eating them, or being confronted with the irrationality of one's own food refusals by surprise.

When we are connected to our true nature, we make choices that are good for our body and can think with clarity and wisdom, not fear and irrationality.

Then again, irrationality is at the heart of Triumph of Love, so we'll let some other critic make the arguments for screwing with perceptions and suggest that those of you who favor the arthouse seek this one out.

This irrationality contextualizes the disreputable contempt we feel for anorexics, who cringe in terror from food — a resource any human should be grateful to have.

I like the idea that hero Ben (Tony Todd, filling in for Jones) is given to fits of rage and irrationality, leading, in this iteration, to his death — and I like, too, the complexity allowed stock human bogey Cooper (Tom Towles), who is after all only defending his daughter at the end.

Alexandra herself is a wildly entertaining character to watch, as she's comprised of both honest affection and respect for her family but also a hefty dose of young adult irrationality.

The absurd irrationality of social and economic systems that despise the living community for the profit of a minority human elite, converting all source of life into market products, has forced us to migrate to distant planets to safeguard human survival.

Vryhof does review briefly the constitutional position concerning public support for religious schools, but only to demonstrate its irrationality (yes it's constitutional for books; no for maps; yes for some tests; no for preparation to take tests; and so on).

And yet, much of behavioral economics seems to pay little heed to this central finding as practitioners in the field move full steam ahead in devising solutions for other people's irrationality.

It is of course, open to and impinged on by all of those — another great draw for the writer — and also by belief and passion and irrationality and need.

They are, at base, looking for investors rational enough to profit from the irrationality of others.

These investors are looking for companies that fly under the radar, or are underpriced due to the irrationality of the market.

For a value investor, it is Mr. Market's irrationality that creates the opportunity for value investoFor a value investor, it is Mr. Market's irrationality that creates the opportunity for value investofor value investors.

The Goons have been driven to abusive posting (it is not my intent to excuse them but only to point out a partial explanation of their behavior and of our tolerance for it) by their discovery of the core irrationality of their investing beliefs.

It is Mr. Market's irrationality that creates the opportunity for investors.

Moran's recent practice has included radical approaches and strategies which allow for the slippage of theory in to the intensity, irrationality and violence of letting go.

For each artist depictions of landscape are the surface or ground on which is registered the irrationality, ambiguity, and contradictory aspects of the unfolding of history.

For the invited artists, these references are not an escape into the depths of irrationality, but rather a new way of experiencing reality: it is a tool for inhabiting the world in all its richness and multiplicity.&raqFor the invited artists, these references are not an escape into the depths of irrationality, but rather a new way of experiencing reality: it is a tool for inhabiting the world in all its richness and multiplicity.&raqfor inhabiting the world in all its richness and multiplicity.»

Each change in Stella's style appears to react logically and seamlessly to preceding formal structures (parallel lines becoming parallel arcs, for example), yet in each shift there is also a kind of built - in irrationality, like the irregular, alternating weave of the arc of the protractor.

My actions in pointing out your hick Minnesotan irrationality about climate randomness, peak oil, power rules for everything and the atmosphere heating the ocean has consequences?

If that isn't directly included in the debate you validate irrationality as Joshua, Fanboy and Angry Michael for example and they like the Gorian mob exist in the intellectual weeds.

I am humiliated and saddened by irrationality — yes, humiliated — for in a world in which merely rhetoric and «persuasiveness» tells us «what is true» and, therefore, «might is right» and the bigger is the better, I crawl in a ball and hope for the bullies to pass.