Sentence examples for irrational from from inspiring English sources

This revolt, inasmuch as it was the assertion of naked will against reasoned planning, was irrational from first to last.

He thinks behavioural economics, which shows us how people often (usually, even) make decisions that are irrational from a classical economic perspective, can provide the answer:A simple numerical example can illustrate the link between helping the poor and harming them.

That is, if one conflates every opinion on a subject, from the scientific to the irrational, from the well-informed to the fictitious, crams them all into one hours-worth of television, adds and then divides them up, the mean average will reveal some sort of hidden truth.

Wootton thus takes Locke to be showing that it is irrational, from the perspective of the individual, to consent to government promotion of religion.

He argued that, leaving aside Locke's Christian arguments, his main position was that it was instrumentally irrational, from the perspective of the persecutor, to use force in matters of religion because force acts only on the will and belief is not something that we change at will.

The man was irrational from the start.

In its pages human fates are considered to result from human will, and not from darkly irrational or from social forces.

Greater narcissism and aloofness (from ITQ), and irrational thinking (from SAI), predicted poorer overall examination scores (p < .05), and poorer performance in Theme A, Theme B overall and communication skills OSCEs.

Starting in the 8th century CE, the Afghan raiders invading into India not only looted the gold from Hindu temples, they also condemned Hindu gods and goddesses as irrational deviations from one true God.

Marriage equality does not inflate budgets; it removes irrational distortions from them.

Rain makes the roads slick and encourages irrational behaviour from pedestrians.