Sentences with phrase «on irrationality»

On the irrationality issue Laws LJ referred to Newbold & Smith v Leicester CC [1999] ICR 1182, [1999] All ER (D) 772 and adopted the approach of Simon Brown LJ when he said: «No court would be astute to allow public authorities to escape too easily from their commercial commitments.»

As the litigation proceeded, however, the case (as well as another individual filesharing case, Sony v. Tenenbaum) has taken on new importance by shining a light on the irrationality of copyright remedies.

«The idea that any of the weather we are seeing is in any significant way due to humanity's greenhouse gas emissions verges on irrationality,» Spencer wrote in his blog.

I wonder if anyone would like to comment on the irrationality of Obama's point on holding off on new nuclear plants «until the problems of storage are sorted out».

To achieve this, I play on the irrationality — the biases — of other investors.

Discussions focused on the irrationality of being forced to offer school choice and the damage it would do to already - struggling schools.

The movie is a powerful personal story, and also an effective history lesson on the irrationality involved in bringing about humanistic change.

Also, I would highly recommend Dr. Greger's e book on the irrationality of carbophobia.

Oddly, we have more knowledge of why people make mistakes in thinking than of why they get things right, yet research on irrationality is hardly mentioned by Collier.

Not exact matches

However, bubbles of irrationality and bubbles of timing are fundamentally different: one is based on something real (the latter), and one is not.

You elevate irrationality to such a level that you can not possibly make informed decisions about matters important here on earth.

It's unfortunate that most of this discussion is focused on narrow minded, inflamed, and defensive irrationality.

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.

Either one recognises the priority of reason, of creative Reason that is at the beginning of all things and is the principle of all things — the priority of reason is also the priority of freedom -, or one holds the priority of the irrational, inasmuch as everything that functions on our earth and in our lives would be only accidental, marginal, an irrational result — reason would be a product of irrationality.

And no, we wouldn't by some mysterious process presumably only you and perhaps the Oracle know start believing in the Oracle if we felt we had to focus on debunking that particular font of myth and irrationality.

Planes were flown into the Twin Towers on 9/11 because of religious irrationality.

Reflection on the obvious irrationality of continuing race prejudice may help to make clear our central theme that the first aim of education should be the awakening of devotion to what is good, in order that growth in knowledge and skill may serve some valuable purpose.

People who have met these needs are able to get beyond the irrationality of relying on religion to fill these same needs (my hypothesis).

It is on this point that Kuhn's critics are most vehement, accusing him of relativism, subjectivism and irrationality.

At the same time, constitutional scholars from all points on the political spectrum acknowledge an escalating irrationality in the constitutional conversation.

I'm not saying you're wrong — just trying to sustain conversation (I call it converse action, my idiocy) on how we talk about ultimate matters on the one hand, practical matters on the other hand, rationality and irrationality, logic, analogic and illogic, belief (bias), faith (by virtue of the absurd).

Miller's remark that the triumph of theory «is evident in the violence and irrationality» of attacks on it repeats the scornful confidence with which Haeckel refers to those (distinguished contemporary physicists and biologists among them) who refused to abandon the «faith of our fathers» as they attacked his new monistic religion.

A fellow atheist blogger, however, on his site The Heathen Hub (http://heathen-hub.com/blog.php?b=344) revealed that she is actually «one of... the atheist movement's footsoldiers», and quotes her as saying that she is «really tired of sceptics who are committed to investigating and criticising irrationality unless that irrationality is of the religious sort....

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 otherOn 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 otheron others.

You will learn over time that female irrationality increases exponentially depending on how many members join your family.

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.

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.

This is not meant as a trivial slight at any irrationality on the part of Scottish voters, or excessive rambunctiousness in the public demeanour of partisans of «Yes Scotland» or «Better Together».

On this traditional model, human beings conceived of as rational actors were only occasionally subject to flights of irrationality in those rare moments when emotions overtook them.

I collected a example list of non-core law changes revoked by the Spanish government, to showcase the vast differences on them and to display the irrationality behind the revocation, except in two (pro-independentist) cases.

Showing war's irrationality and horror is of no effect on him.

Referred to by some as a dadaistic comedian, Andy Kaufman took comedy and performance art to the edges of irrationality and I knew within 45 seconds I was never going on a date with Andy Cohen, says Anderson Cooper on the set of the Tonight Show on Friday

Doctor Strange's psychedelic sequences — with buildings exhilaratingly folding in on themselves, almost like origami, and dimensions of fabulous biochemical irrationality opening up within other dimensions — are gorgeous and imaginatively evoked as well as emotionally stirring.

On the contrary, he takes back the formulation of the defendant to demonstrate the irrationality.

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).

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.

My recent articles have been largely focused on The Grand Illusion, a hypothesis that many self - publishers (mostly poor writers, some good) are dynamically sustaining a distorted view of collective self - worth (in terms of literary ability) as well as other irrationalities.

A preeminent scientist — and the world's most prominent atheist — asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.

I found the study «The irrationality of payment behaviour» accidentally while searching on the term «DNB Study» instead of «D&B Study».

Because that is such a big deal, I tend to focus on the macro side of these matters — what it means to become aware of our own irrationality and thereby to take the risk out of stock investing.

People on the other side of the camp believe that markets are inefficient because of human irrationality.

A wise value investor is someone who knows exactly the actual value of the stocks despite the changes on its value due to the irrationality.

You want to always make sure you are basing your trades on logic and objectivity, not irrationality and emotion (like most traders).

I was scrolling through negative reviews on Steam with all the irrationality of a venomous troll reveling in a shared hatred of something popular and innocuous.

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.

In this regard, the exhibition tries to show how «truth» can be constructed, often between various forms of knowledge... Cartography of Control, thus, addresses notions such as conflict, man made structures, control, rationality / irrationality... This is shown in work such as Cartography of Control, where the manipulation of powerful electric charge embodies itself as a note on trying to control the uncontrollable.

Using the market as both a geographic and ideological center, Heading Southwest [About Practice # 2] aims to shed light on the macro meaning of the Essex Market's inner and parallel social functions, as a metaphor of a universal need: the human desire to discover and find the irrationality within reality, the extraordinary within ordinary and the mythology within facts, in turn revealing a fragile desire to fictionalize reality by threading together a narrative that feels more impressive than the real.

Or maybe it should be put the other way round: Stubbs's imagery seems constantly on the verge of converging into some form of cultural commentary, but the fundamental abstractness and even irrationality of his overlapping poured shapes seems calculated to prevent that — to insist on the painting as an agreement to disagree between wayward materials and stubborn intentionality.

The 20th century was focused on progress as a goal, and artists posed questions about the value of the modern project through radically rationalist positions, or through the acceptance of inherent human irrationality.

Mehretu's «Cairo» (from 2013), recalls the Freudian overlays of history and the unconscious that are the essence of the megalopolis lifestyle; Bradford's «Corner of Desire and Piety» (2008) refers to the social failures of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe and by extension the frailty and irrationality of the urban fabric; and the El Anatsui tapestry, «Red Black,» 2010, undulating on the wall, recalls the skin of the museum itself, woven of many pieces, with a curious declivity dramatizing its strength.