Sentences with phrase «than rational beings»

If it turns out that we are more than rational beings with interests, and that we make claims (sometimes angrily) based on honor and the need for recognition, then consent and deliberation that ignores more poignant spurs to action than mere interest will often fall short.

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This recommendation comes from finance professor Anat Admati, who says: «Economists tend to think that beliefs and behavior are guided by incentives and rational processing of information, but I know that there is more to it than this simple model, and that other disciplines have much to say.

«Irrational pricing,» he explains, «is one in which a given price point has no rational explanation other than «Because we can.»»

Pedego store owners «are more mature and, I think, more rational» than younger business owners, says CEO DiCostanzo, an electric - vehicle zealot who is on his third Tesla.

Which doesn't make it any more rational or sensible, because whether you're in Paris, Tokyo or Tashkent, you are more more liable to be killed by a car than to be victimized by terrorism.

There's no rational reason for such moves other than some are efforting (successfully, to date) to buoy prices and calm otherwise edgy and excitable bitcoin investors.

The scientists behind these studies all seem to agree on the answer: rather than view narcissism as an evil to be always avoided, organizations should strive to understand that small doses of the characteristic are often inseparable from high achievement and make rational cost - benefit analyses.

When consumers are feeling uncertain, they tend towards rational rather than emotional decision - making.

«In my experience people who assert statements like that are often immune to evidence or rational argument, and envision themselves as superior beings who are more enlightened than the rest of us.»

As a result, failing R&D projects are often kept going much longer than is scientifically rational or economically prudent.

So, despite our rational desire to get a return for the risks we take, we tend to value something we own higher than the price we'd normally be prepared to pay for it.

Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil sands are a much more sane solution to current energy needs than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).

Investing is more of an emotional than intellectual exercise, and it becomes very hard to stay on an even keel and to make rational, unbiased judgements if you're making them based on someone else's information.

Although the valuation of the market is not as stretched today as it was in the late 1990s, investors» exuberance is also arguably more rational than it was then.»

For BtoB startups — cost reduction or increasing the sales are the only two most important reasons why customers buy product as their decision are more rational than individuals who may buy the product for variety of other reasons.

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 the company is sold for $ 10M to $ 20M, the holders of Series A would still receive $ 1.00 / share as a rational Series A holder would never convert his / her shares to common as the Series A holder would receive more from the Series A liquidation preference than as a holder of common.

With a more levelheaded approach to precious metal investing than the traditional «gold bug,» Luke Burgess has proven that rational thinking in a largely emotional market can be incredibly profitable.

In the realm of loving and promoting the irrational over the rational expectations of the MODEL BUILDERS, there is no better poster child than German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

However, after spending time reading your articles for about more than a month, I am quite happy to say that your advices are rational and not coloured.

Rather than superior intelligence, Buffett confided, it is the capacity for unconditionally rational thought — followed by proportional action — that separates the winners from the also - rans.»

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 %.

We define intrinsic value as the amount that would accrue to the owners of a security if the underlying company were sold to a rational and well - informed buyer, or the company was liquidated with the proceeds distributed to security holders, or where the particular security sells at a price that would yield no better than a security considered ultra-safe, such as a US Treasury note or bond» Lou Simpson

The loudest factions of Christianity and atheism aren't the largest, which presents the occasion for mutual understanding: open, honest, introspective and rational discussion between groups of people who share more in common than not.

Bobinator, if you think it's «silly» to be rational about true historic risk assessment and okay to escalate hatreds over some claimed «siege» that simply doesn't exist, you are considerably worse than just silly.

Your opinion that it's a «rational» way to see the world is just that — nothing more than you're opinion.

Consider this: supposedly, something like 35 % of us have had transcendental experiences and these experiences resonate «Truth» in a way that is far more intimate than our rational / sensory - based experiences.

Also, both can be rational thinkers, but one may have more information than the other, so their conclusion will not be the same.

The problem is that very few people what to have this rational discussion — they want to have an emotional arguement and play a game of «my god is better / kinder / bigger / badder than your god.

No I do not accept that women as a whole are more vindictive than men, nor do I accept that men as a whole are more level - headed and rational than women.

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.

All I have to do is have a reasonable, honest and rational disbelief in the christian god andhet will inflict a grotesque penalty upon me an infinite times worse than the death penalty.

That proof probably wouldn't be enough for those who believe that they are more «rational» than everyone else.

that's probably the most reasonable and rational thing ever said on these blogs, however clearly more «christians» (i'm laughing at those who call themselves christians) concern themselves more about the lives of others than leading their own moral life.

Agnosticism is inherently more rational than Atheist «Specific Non-Belief».

For example, there are more irrational numbers than rational numbers.

It's more than something logic can not explain, it's something there simply is no rational reason to believe.

You have always sounded fairly rational to me William, though anyone pretending to be William is showing themselves to be no more mature than a 5th grader.

I'm sure you can type a long and boring argument that shows you think it is, but there is more to life than being rational.

Even those who continued to defend religious beliefs often contented themselves with showing that such beliefs are rational rather than that they are true.

If you think that pink unicorns are more irrational than your god, there may be little hope for a rational discussion.

On the contrary, the concept that the universe is the product of a rational mind provides a far better metaphysical basis for scientific rationality than the competing concept that everything in the universe (including our minds) is ultimately based in the mindless movements of matter.

To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night sky and see more than the infinite reach of empty space and the eternal stretch of endless time, that can «keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God» (3:1).

But — nobody in that church leadership group said anything at all after the comment about men being more reasonable than women and women being emotional and not rational.»

Based on his long collaboration with Hans Urs von Balthasar, Joseph Ratzinger was able to capture the essence of his friend's theological aesthetics in this single, lapidary line: «Being overcome by the beauty of Christ is a more real, more profound knowledge than mere rational deduction.»

To believe in the rational mind as humanity's «salvation» is all well and fine but after thousand of years on the planet man still strives to belief in something bigger than himself.

Rational - Emotive Therapy (RET) is a cognitive therapy (rather than a behavior therapy) created by psychologist Albert Ellis.

The particular mechanisms employed depend on circumstances of history, geography, and culture, and decisions about them can be made responsibly only by taking account of man's acquisitive propensities, his need for rational order, his longing for freedom, and his sense of justice — in short, by relying on an integral rather than a truncated conception of human nature.