Sentences with phrase «than rational thought»

They say people make decisions on how they feel rather than rational thought.

Yet more evidence that religions (not faith mind you) is populated by ignorant people who would rather use their fears and insecurities to rule their decisions than rational thought.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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

Even if, in some sense, I exist, I don't know what I am — and it turns out, so some modern materialists have begun to argue — that nothing I do or even say and think is more than the motion of material parts (and so subvert even the notion of rational argument itself).

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.

Despite this, I still believe in God because of some experiences I've had as a child... other than that, I think people should start considering things through a rational, scientific perspective.

With this important modification, it may be easier to think of the sacred canopy, then, as something other than a purely rational or cognitive philosophy of life.

Rather than accept the burden of complicated moral decisions, to which they must apply critical thinking and rational inquiry, they turn off their mental faculty and accept as true and infallible a set of principles that we developed in the very infancy of our civilization.

While he maintains that every life and life - form contribute in some way to the Divine life, he also claims that our individual capacity for rational thought and moral sensitivity allows humans to contribute more to God than any other creatures.

While he maintains that every life and life form contributes in some way to the Divine life, he also claims that our individual capacity for rational thought allows humans to contribute more to God than other creatures.

Some people have nothing better to do than get on the internet and argue for the sake of arguing, with no rational thought behind it.

High school is short but life is long and having belief in your principles and capacity for rational thought are going to mean a lot more in the long run than being popular with the vapid sheep you are currently surrounded by.

Isn't the point of having rational thought partly so that we can call into question the things that we are unsure of, rather than continue to blindly accept them?

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.

They are no more capable of rational objectivity or critical thinking than any other group drowning in it's own self - interest and self - importance.

You said, «I've never understood why it is more rational to think everything comes from nothing than to believe there is a Creator.»

I've never understood why it is more rational to think everything comes from nothing than to believe there is a Creator.

If atheist were as rational as they propose, they would realize that calling religious people names isn't furthering the goal of converting anyone to their way of thinking any more than it is affecting pending legislation.

But, Jesus tended to be thought of as «God» rather than «man»; and Luther's mind was already tending towards a crisis; the paralysing four Latin words with which the prayer began had their effect regardless of what the rational mind knew would follow them; the moment of horror ensued.

I find logic and rational thought far more comforting than religion could ever be.

i was a bit disappointed with dououre who we seem to be linked with as a potential DM but almost certainly better than xhaka who the junkies still have faith in for reasons beyond any semblance of rational thinking

That was a lot more of a rational response than I expected... I thought our biggest shortcoming last season were in order of importance: A.) When Cazorla and Coquelin went down.

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

And though a preschooler is much more capable of rational thought than a toddler, she's still ruled by her emotions and can turn on a dime from a happy - go - lucky kid to a flailing, wailing wild thing.

If it is being considered a workable model we are in a world which is much more realistic than the one we were in before — and certainly more than the one we were in before the election, when May's tragic - comic aides killed all rational thought about the issue.

Whether you're sure about political affiliations or alien abduction, that feeling of knowing derives not from rational thought, he argues, but from the brain's primitive limbic system; the gut feeling is more likely to emerge from careful electric stimulation than from careful consideration.

«I think it would be marvelous if this trial worked, but it really seems more like a «Hail Mary pass» than a rational therapy,» he says.

For reasons that escape rational thinking, conventional medicine persists in using serum tests rather than saliva tests.

I think most rational people can agree living in the wild on a diet of caribou, elk and salmon is different than eating Hormel bacon and mcdonalds cheeseburgers.

In other words, the current board is sharply divided along ideological lines, with members too often focused on scoring political points and talking as though they're channeling either UTLA leadership or the most rigid of reformers, rather than thinking independently to come up with rational ideas that advance the cause of sound education.

They are more volatile than most theories would predict because people are not rational in the sense that economists posit — they do not think as much as imitate and extrapolate.

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.

I think bond investors are more rational than stock investors; they have more rational benchmarks to guide them.

The thought is perfectly rational — It's better to spend some money preventing a panic than it would be to spend the large sum it would take to recover from the panic.

Kurt presents the «seven psychological death sins» you should be aware of in an attempt to downtone System 1 and advance System 2: 1) excessive self - confidence, 2) herd mentality, 3) blind orthodoxy, 4) denial, 5) confirmation bias, 6) deadlocked ideas and attitudes, 7) cognitive dissonance (the tendency to go with the thought that «feels best» when stuck with the choice between two contradicting ideas rather than investigating which is more rational).

And so while it was undeniably cool to see the thing in real life, when we stop letting our excitement take over rational thought, we can see that we're actually barely any further forward than we were a week ago.

I am apparently not alone in thinking that this study is more about justifying the use of drones than it is for really developing a rational, carbon efficient transport and delivery system.

By «same trick» I mean posted some nonsense here, got an inline response by Gavin, and then rather than attempt to hold a rational conversation here has gone over to her own blog, castigated the OP and Gavin's response to her post, and is running with the «climate scientists are mean therefore...» train of thought.

Where you say «I challenge any rational observer to come to any other conclusion than we are at limits of observational precision,» I think it would be farer to say that it is you who «are at the limits of observational precision.»

I am not sure that the rational decision based on science is related to the best hindsight decision (at lest at the level of the nation state), it seems rational to think that logic would favour the best choice but it may be no better than guessing.

Frankly — I think the inability to process these anomalies is suggestive of group think rather than rational cognitive processes.

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

Steve Fitzpatrick says: «It is an real contribution to link the ENSO to the AMO (this gives the AMO a more solid rational for influencing global temperatures), but it is I think unwise to suggest that ENSO driven cycles are (rather than could possibly be) responsible for most of the observed ocean surface warming since 1900.»

It is an real contribution to link the ENSO to the AMO (this gives the AMO a more solid rational for influencing global temperatures), but it is I think unwise to suggest that ENSO driven cycles are (rather than could possibly be) responsible for most of the observed ocean surface warming since 1900.