Sentence examples for irrational basis from inspiring English sources

Juries make decisions on an irrational basis, he says.

Or maybe they feed our tribal instincts, stimulate the irrational basis of loyalty to our community or our country.

Per state funding "is a completely irrational basis for doing anything," Foster says.

GPs who approached PSA testing case by case generally agreed that overdiagnosis statistics do not, or cannot, apply to individuals; "those like statistical issues don't apply to the individual…because…they make their decisions on a set of complex, but perhaps irrational basis, you know, anxiety and…" (GP7).

Emotion is a central feature of any conflict, and conflicts are often seen as irrational on the basis of the emotional sense of indignation or outrage of each party.

"Quite simply, the panic that has gripped the mortgage financing market is irrational and has no basis in investment reality," Larry A. Goldstone, the chief executive of Thornburg, said in a statement.

A Republican-appointed judge, Judge Walker, wrote: "Proposition 8 both unconstitutionally burdens the exercise of the fundamental right to marry and creates an irrational classification on the basis of sexual orientation".

A few sessions later, after Salo W. Baron, Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, had testified to the more recent history of Eastern European Jewry, Dr. Servatius could no longer resist temptation and asked the obvious questions: "Why did all this bad luck fall upon the Jewish people?" and "Don't you think that irrational motives are at the basis of the fate of this people?

Mathematicians often depend on irrational numbers like, e (the basis of natural logarithms), and 2 to give them an unpredictable stream of digits.

So Carneades was not committed to the views that nothing can be known and that it is always irrational to assent on the basis of these anti-Stoic arguments: the latter do not give him reasons to believe their conclusions.

He developed the theory of proportion, partly to place the doctrine of incommensurables (irrationals) upon a thoroughly sound basis.