I was not competent to explain the rationale of it; I trusted, in a way, to the mere reversion of the processes that had been described in similar cases of disintegrated personalities.
Of its actual rationale they knew virtually nothing, though in some cases the disintegrated personalities had been synthesized into a normal self by means of hypnotic treatment.
As a positive political force, Confucianism has done two things: It has kept the Chinese from depending too much on political control, and it has provided a rationale in the contest for power.
A materialistic interpretation would point out the need for cheap and plentiful human labor in maintaining the agrarian economy of China, and reduce the rationale of the system to a mere web of justifications.
Through their ethical and psychological studies the Sung Confucians translated the Confucian rationale into an effective ideological technique for domination.
The rationale of this solace is indicated after a forcible, though rather a homely fashion, in the Chinese saying: "A dog chasing game does not mind the fleas which he barks at while he lies in his kennel.
I have said enough to convince you that ciphers of this nature are readily soluble, and to give you some insight into the rationale of their development.
You will see at once that all argument upon this head should be urged, if at all, against the rule itself; and for this end we must examine the rationale of the rule.
May the ultimate principles of a true ethical theory and the ultimate rationale of a true theology be found in living deed to coincide?
See his Rationale Divinorum Officiorum (appended to the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of G.
Durantis), a writer of the thirteenth century, in his Rationale Divinorum Officiorum, lib.
One of his earliest efforts was as editor of Bentham's "Rationale of Judicial Evidence.
Now in the older theory of Roman Law the individual bore to the family precisely the same relation which in the rationale of English jurisprudence a Corporation sole bears to a Corporation aggregate.
Progress can only be made if new minds are educated in the current languages, exposed to the rationale for all decisions that have been made and invited to test new methods and structures.
They can, however, engage the public in an ongoing exploration and dialogue on issues and their impacts, and attempt to provide a rationale for their roles in the chamber in which they participate.
In actuality, the multi-faceted rationale underlying the WTO protests confirm both their broad based support, as well as the quite evolved capacity of its members to coalesce across previously unimaginable ideological chasms.
Unable to draw out a single, simplified rationale that encompasses the logic of each and every protestor, traditional media storytellers conclude that there is no logic at all.
We know what sorts of intelligence are required to apprehend, and to do no more than apprehend, the rationale of many among these natural movements, forces, and processes.
Several strong examples of such incompleteness are given by Helmholtz in his scientific inquiry into the rationale of the visual sense-impressions.
There remains, then, as the only intelligible rationale of solar sustentation, Helmholtz's shrinkage theory.
Just as the animal finds the rationale of all things in a notion of life and of activity, man tends to find a rationale of all things in a conception of art and of scheming intelligence.
Sidenote: Rationaleof primitive man’s faith in the marvellous.
Such appears to be the rationale of the action of alkalies.
I am able to add little respecting the rationale of their action to that which I have said of the operation of Catalytic medicines in general.
Thus we had before our eyes the rationale of two of the native distinctions; traversed the zone of flowering shrubs; and saw above us the mist hang perennial in Mau.
We may find the rationale in the ancient Arabian idea that a common diet makes a common blood, with its derivative axiom that "he is the father who gives the child its morning draught.
The student who would understand the rationale of the unfoldment of his own possibilities must make no mistake here.
The rationale was that the National Assembly is not a continuously sitting body so that its functions must, of necessity, be assigned to state bodies of a permanent nature.
Torricelli did not know the rationale of his tube, nor Otto von Guericke that of his air-pump; yet no one thinks of denying them the merit of their inventions on that account.
The rationale of the blast may be simply explained by referring to the effect of contracting the pipe of a water-hose, by which the force of the jet of water is proportionately increased.
The wheels had merely got clogged by the oil congealed by the cold, which at once explains the rationale of the remedy adopted.
