Sentences with phrase «not irrational idea»

Within Asia generally, there exists a strong cultural preference for sons, based on the not irrational idea that sons support their parents in old age and carry on the family name.

Contingency is not an irrational idea; deductive reason is subsidiary to the ultimate rationality, which, as Whitehead says, is the wise, free creation of novel orders.

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You may RATIONAL in regards to the [irrational] ideas of «God», but that does not prevent you from being IRRATIONAL about other things, including your POLITICAL IDEOLOGY and desires for POWER airrational] ideas of «God», but that does not prevent you from being IRRATIONAL about other things, including your POLITICAL IDEOLOGY and desires for POWER aIRRATIONAL about other things, including your POLITICAL IDEOLOGY and desires for POWER and wealth.

Despite our postmodern sophistication and our wishful thinking about perfectibility, our nature is immutable — not least in its fickleness, its embrace of irrational ideas and practices, and its suggestibility.

Perhaps Vic is surprised that people aren't united by disbelief in the most irrational idea: that invisible beings exist that struggle with each other to rule us and own our souls.

Faith is not an act of blind credulity or the acceptance of irrational and absurd ideas.

For those who do not know it is totally irrational idea of believing in Christianity «just in case,» because you have nothing to lose and everything to gain, and if you do not believe then you have nothing to gain and everything to lose.

She was not that well educated nor did she look at what the consequences of actually following her childish and irrational ideas would be.

The assumption that one can regard one's love as merely an irrational force is rejected as an unworkable approach, but the idea that any particular love may be irrational and unsuitable all the way down is not necessarily dismissed.

People who find the idea of God (as described in the Bible) to be irrational, don't have to necessarily believe in the Big Bang Theory either.

Despite our postmodern sophistication and our wishful thinking about perfectibility, our nature is immutable — not least in its fickleness, its embrace of irrational ideas and practices, and its suggestibility.Charles Mackay's classic work, Extraordinary Popular....

For this reason, the term «normal backwardation» is frequently used to express the idea that backwardated markets are not necessarily anomalous or irrational.

As an artist, she is interested in the friction that is instigated within the mixing of these conventions — whether it is an aesthetic structure that informs a political commentary or an attempt to bring an irrational idea or an idea that does not have definitive form into a physical structure.

Bugs aren't most people's favourite thing to pick up and look at closely, but a bamboo specimen may be one way to get around that somewhat irrational idea of «ickiness» about insects.

In fact, if you look at his original list of irrational beliefs, well, I think he called them irrational ideas in those days, some of them wouldn't pass muster as irrational beliefs now, more like, sort of, distorted influences.

They were different from the Freudian perspective, not so rooted in investigating the deeply irrational side of human nature or wedded to the idea that it could take years to unpack the psyche and heal.