Meanings of non-rational in English

Absurd as in non-rational, dreamlike, an escape from what passes for reality.

Other non-rational causes of belief draw individuals, but they do not draw crowds.

While language familiarises with non-rational relations, science familiarises with rational relations.

There may be other non-rational causes of belief, but these are the principal and more universal.

And when we say they are non-rational causes, we do not mean that they are non-reasonable or unreasonable.

Academia is a very non-rational endeavor.

He hopes thereby to elicit feelings of fear and shame and thus influence us in a non-rational way.

Human beings are non-rational creatures.

The empirical art of politics consists largely in the creation of opinion by the deliberate exploitation of subconscious non-rational inference.

But conjurers and others who study our non-rational mental processes can so play upon them as to make us form absurd beliefs.

The innocence which the advocates of this theory contend for is {58} something not unlike the non-rational existence of the animal.

Under its auspices analyses of non-rational propaganda were made and several texts for the instruction of high school and university students were prepared.

We have to select or create entities to reason about, just as we select or create entities to stimulate our impulses and non-rational inferences.

Absurd as in non-rational, dreamlike, an escape from what passes for reality.

Other non-rational causes of belief draw individuals, but they do not draw crowds.

While language familiarises with non-rational relations, science familiarises with rational relations.