Most recently, he has offered uncharacteristically illogical justifications for tax cuts proposed by President Bush.
And psychologically, chocolate often proves to be a slippery slope, and can trigger some wildly illogical justifications in our minds ("sure, this jumbo chocolate muffin is the same as this raw dark chocolate bar").
Total numbers of logical and illogical justifications in each response were compiled separately.
A similar pattern is seen for illogical statements, for which the full-semester implementations changed significantly (fewer illogical justifications postcourse than precourse) on three questions, while the partial-semester implementations changed on only one.
For many of the individual implementations, when pre- and postimplementation scores were compared, significant increases and decreases were seen in the number of logical and illogical justifications, respectively (Table 4, A D).
We used a rubric developed in our previous study (Hoskins et al., 2007) to score the following measures: Whether a student agreed, disagreed, or took no stance on the conclusion stated in the question; the number of logical justifications presented as part of the student's explanation; and the number of illogical justifications presented.
It's a confusion that in its most willful usage accounts for, if not the direct formation of stereotypes leading to bigotry, certainly the illogical but presumed justification and reinforcement of stereotypes by the bigot.
We yearn for it, in fact, and we'll do any manner of mental gymnastics to achieve some level of certainty in our decisions, even if our justifications are illogical.
Artistic vision and value is one of the justifications given for the utterly illogical persistence of this insanely expensive and unapologetically exclusive branch of fashion – in which elaborate catwalk shows are staged in order to showcase a collection whose eventual orders are unlikely to ever reach triple figures.
