Sentences with phrase «less than a rational»

Democratic politics is the art of persuasion, which, however passionate, requires civility and diplomacy no less than rational debate.

Many have attributed Rasputin's power to the crazed religious atmosphere of the epoch, but, as one scholar has pointed out, Russian religiosity had long been less than rational.

I can see my thoughts have sort of gone off line, become less than rational, and I find myself beginning to react to the situation in a way that I can see is making things worse.

Not exact matches

In his January 2018 retrospective «Richard Thaler and the Rise of Behavioral Economics», Nicholas Barberis reviews the development of behavioral (less than fully rational) models of economics and finance, with focus on Richard Thaler's contributions.

Hopefully, he's rational enough to realize that his avoidable actions would trigger a massive global economic contraction which, even if the United States is less hurt than others, history would not look kindly upon.

You would be rational to bid $ 4,999.99 since that is less than the expected payoff of $ 5,000.

If there was no volatility, and we knew stocks went up 8 % every year, the only rational response would be to pay more for them, until they were expensive enough to return less than 8 %.

From this, it's LESS rational for me to believe you are somehow a miraculous exception than it is to believe that you're par for the course.

good news is there are less and less of them every year and soon, some day rational thought will be in the majority voting rather than insane bible tooting fools.

Legend, no less than history, remembers the past; but it remembers it with a creative abandon, in disregard of history's concern, always present whatever the degree of interpretation, to give a rational and coherent reconstruction.

perfect God and perfect man, composed of a rational soul and human flesh; equal to the Father with respect to His divinity, less than the Father with respect to His humanity.

Not sure which is more terrifying — Pat sounding somewhat rational about science, or the fact that 46 % of people surveyed think the planet and everything on it is less than 10,000 years old.

Hence, faith in revelation's word about the ultimately trustworthy character of reality is no less rational than is the trust in truth, goodness, and beauty that makes all academic pursuits possible.

The only thing less rational than believing in God is «believing» your decision to not believe is the definitive word on the subject.

For example, if man were defined as essentially a rational animal, rationality could not admit of degrees, and «more» of it would not constitute a norm or an ideal, without entailing that some human beings are less «human» than others.

It is no less determinate as existing than it is determinate as rational (or, for Buchler, judging), even though the latter is strongly relevant to it as human.

Both have the same foe in mind, more or less, who is more of a pitiable fool than an enemy: the skeptic whose overconfident rational reductionism ultimately fails to take the spiritual dimension into account.

The seat of existence of Hindu man, no less than of Western man, was in the rational consciousness, and he recognized the natural tendency to identify this with his self.

It is utterly unrealistic to assume that deterrence will continue to avoid actual nuclear war, all the less so when powers considerably less rational than the Russians are involved.

I may be willing to call religious believers less evolved than some non-believers (only a small and more rational subset and with a rather questionable assumption on the direction of evolution), but even that would be within limits.

If such talk of truth makes my neighbor, the rabbi, uncomfortable — and I can understand how it might — I can only point out that Jesus is my sole reason for defending the rabbi against the onslaughts of either fascist politicians or liberal theologians who will not embrace him until he becomes «rational» or «enlightened» in other words, something less than Jewish.

The players themselves seem to be less concerned about who isn't playing than who is, a very healthy and rational attitude imho.

Let's face it: kids have less control over their emotions and rational thought than (most) adults.

So I have always struggled to stay calm and rational when she makes choices that are — ahem — less than desirable.

In the context of limited health budgets, on epidemiological and ethical grounds treatment approaches are in most situations a less rational public health investment than approaches that prevent SAM and other types of malnutrition.

Btw, I am not sure why it is irrational, or less rational, to leave the Labour party over this than to stay put.

A comment on the same blog less than ninety minutes later, thanks readers for forwarding the video, but instructs them to remain rational and wait for an official resolution.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

Telling people to do the rational thing — stock up on some things you might need if you're stuck in for a few days but otherwise it's winter - as - usual around here — gets much less attention than «Oh my God snowpocalypse / snowmageddon / snorgy of doom will bury us alive!»

Einstein's life spanned the terrors of the 20th century — two world wars, the worldwide Great Depression, fascism, communism, the Holocaust, the threat of nuclear war — and he was never less than steadfast and rational in his attention to the history of his time.

There are a number of potential explanations for this finding, including a limited supply of effective teachers (it's rational to keep a mediocre teacher if the likely replacement will be no better), a lack of administrator ability to discern teacher quality (their observations are less predictive of value - added than those of outside observers), or a simple unwillingness to make the unpleasant decision of firing someone.

They'll say you're making less rational decisions than Shia LaBeouf.

We're far less rational than we think when it comes to money, according to Richard Thaler at the University of Chicago, Daniel Kahneman at Princeton University and many other researchers in the field of behavioral finance.

Improbable though it may seem, research by University of Chicago psychologists has shown that people are less prone to biases like excessive aversion to losses and more apt to make systematic and rational decisions when a choice is presented to them in a foreign language rather than their native tongue.

With such a small amount invested in each company the 30 stock portfolio will probably be far less emotionally taxing than the 10 stock portfolio, and is therefore likely to be managed on a more rational and cool - headed basis.

From the beginning, his concern had been to develop a visual language that was less complicated and more impartial and rational than the emotionally charged works of Abstract Expressionism, and he did so by prioritizing the artistic process, leaving the endpoint almost an afterthought.

Having said that, i believe that China for example is really experiencing the kind of pollution that US did in the 50 and 60's, and that they are better equipped to move more forcibly and quicker than the US did, one reason is that no rational being would deploy techninology that is outdated,,, they would leapfrog to the newwer technology when building infrastructure... One might be able to argue that it is cheaper and more beneficial for developed to support that... That and the belief i have that they may not, as you point, want to experihence the consumption addiction that US incurred... (Note; the Europeans are substantially less than the US per capita emissions, a benefit of greater foresight — evidence that this is not a «western» problem

First he describes research by Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff and others that has shown how emotional responses to the world, — «fear factors,» as Ropeik calls them — make risks feel more or less frightening than science and statistics say would be rational.

Curious: what do you think implies that ideologically motivated reasoning is «irrational» or «less rational» than some alternative?

According to Lomborg, implementing policies to combat climate change right now «end up doing a lot less good than we could do if we were a lot more rational about it.»

And as I see it, 99 people could believe something, but if one guy can make a factual and rational argument of why not to believe that, then the theory has much less than a 99 % chance of being right.

It's less rational than talking about the risks of drowning in an article about the accidental spillage of a glass of water.

In a couple of cases less rational than flat earther arguments, but those are rare.

What I was going for is that less than careful application of «rational» vs. «irrational» undermines trust in polarized contexts where it could, possibly, otherwise exist.

The less transparent judicial review appears to be; the more it looks like a dictation of the judges» views rather than a rational argument for them; the less legitimate it will become.

Another important lesson about being ruled by gator brain (and this one particularly impacts those of us in marketing) is that statistics are less powerful than individual stories, even for people who consider themselves rational.

Dr. Albert Ellis (1913 - 2007) was the author of more than 65 books on psychotherapy, relationship therapy, and self - help, including Feeling Better, Getting Better, Staying Better; Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy: A Therapist's Guide; Making Intimate Connections and How to Make Yourself Happy and Remarkably Less Disturbable.

Gottman and DeClaire write «we have inherited a tradition of discounting children's feelings simply because children are smaller, less rational, less experienced, and less powerful than the adults around them» (p. 31).