Sentences with phrase «rational justification for»

You always present a rational justification for your thinking.

Thus there is no rational justification for using climate model forecasts to determine public policy,» he added.

The implication seems to be (although not always) that there is currently a rational justification for disbelief in AGW, but this is just as consistent with the literature as is the moon being made of blue cheese.

If you look at the statistics and the studies, there simply is no rational justification for the anti-co-sleeping campaign.

Two of Kiefer's works that bear the same title — «Ways of Worldly Wisdom» — gain impact if one realizes that he borrowed the title from Bernhard Jansen, a sanguine Jesuit theologian who in the 1920s, in his apologetic efforts to give rational justification for Catholicism, drew on the writings of a number of German philosophers who, ironically, also proved to be useful foils in the apologetics of Nazi ideologues.

The question is, do we have a rational justification for what our highest standard is?

As he and three equally evil boon companions rampage across the stage, committing one atrocity after another with delirious gaiety, they also spin out elaborate but perfectly cogent rational justifications for their actions, of an almost proto - Nietzschean kind.

Not exact matches

Our reaction toward the prospect of eating human flesh or having sexual intercourse with our parents transcends, in its violence, any rational justification we may subsequently give for our views.

For Luther that power sprang from God's holiness and was transformed into rational discourse in the justification doctrine.

David Lull responds initially by arguing from Cobb that the idea of creative transformation is a material norm for theology, and that the word «transformation» is a rational statement of the more symbolic terms «creation, redemption, justification, emancipation, or sanctification» (WPH 194).

Nevertheless, it is not entirely without value for theology to attempt at the same time, in a subordinate and supportive manner, some kind of rational «justification» of the central claims of revelation.

While many of its premises appear rational, the document has serious deficiencies, which the author examines in detail, including extension of the justification for a preemptive war to include a preventive war.

As Paul Davies points out, «in Renaissance Europe, the justification for what we today call the scientific approach to inquiry was the belief in a rational God whose created order could be discerned from a careful study of nature» (Paul Davies, The Mind of God).

On the contrary, he developed an elaborate justification for rational belief in God on the basis of ethical experience and worked out the religious implications of his understanding of God and man.

If you feel my rebutting of Killian's skyrocketry regarding Knoblauch et al (2018) is» exaggerating, misrepresenting, or just completely fabricating someone's argument» so as to make it» much easier to present (my) own position as being reasonable» and that» this kind of dishonesty serves to undermine honest rational debate»; if you feel all that, you would have more sympathy from me if you were able to demonstrate this alleged» dishonesty», or even better begin by demonstrating some justification for the skyrocketry.

I believe there are several rational, scientifically well - founded justifications for such a belief.

Frankly, that strikes me as demonstrating ignorance of how rational policy analysis and justification for policies and expenditure is done.

However, while I recognise the current ideological and political objectives to limit GHG emissions form energy use, there does not seem to be a rational economic justification for GHG abatement.

RC is not a place for rational discussion because if you wish to make a simple, calm, rational point with numerous cites and justifications; if it contradicts or even just appears to contradict a point that one of the principals on that blog wishes to make, then it will not appear.

If we accept what David Wojick's post says, then what rational, objective justification is there for policies to mitigate GHG emissions?

Without the damage function there can be no rational, valid justification for spending money on mitigation, or the huge climate industry.

[First category:] Characteristics such as race, caste, noble birth, membership of a political party and gender, are seldom, if ever, acceptable grounds for differences in treatment... But [second category:] the Strasbourg court has given it a wide interpretation [to Art 14], approaching that of the 14th Amendment, and it is therefore necessary, as in the United States, to distinguish between those grounds of discrimination which prima facie appear to off end our notions of the respect due to the individual and those which merely require some rational justification.»

While the SCC introduced the justification test for s. 35 violations in Sparrow (and see the post by Bankes and Koshan on the problems with that reading of s 35 here), some of the elements articulated in Tsilhqot» in are new to s. 35, in particular the rational connection and proportionality of impact considerations.

Factors include outrageous conduct for a lengthy period of time without any rational justification, the defendant's awareness of the hardship it knew it was inflicting, whether the misconduct was planned and deliberate, the intent and motive of the defendant, whether the defendant concealed or attempted to cover up its misconduct, whether the defendant profited from its misconduct, and whether the interest violated by the misconduct was known to be deeply personal to the plaintiff.

So we've been trying to tease out whether there are rational explanations for our current situation, or whether irrational exuberance is the only justification.

The favored parent will have a lot of justification for their behavior and generally attempt to blame the rejected parent as the cause or rational behind their alienating tactics.