THE view of West Chelsea from the roof of 540 West 28th Street, a new condominium at 11th Avenue, prompts a somewhat irrational question: what housing crash?
Word around the startup world is that"Why not pay $1 million to hire a few good engineers?" isn't an irrational question.
However, these facts are consistent with the choice to engage in suicidal behavior being irrational, and serious questions can be raised about just how often the conditions for rational suicide are met in actual cases of self-inflicted death.
Plato does not specify the irrational part in question in this passage, and indeed thinking the sun is the size of your hand does not feel like either anger overwhelming you or desires tempting.
But Mr. Greenspan, who in late 1996 raised questions about "irrational exuberance," did not address whether the Fed's subsequent willingness to keep interest rates low as stocks rose and the economy boomed had contributed to the anything-goes climate he decried today.
Gödel thought in a somewhat Kantian way that human reason would be fatally irrational if it asked questions it could not answer (for critical discussion, see Kreisel 1967; Boolos 1995; Raatikainen 2005).
The question is irrational.
Even Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve chairman has questioned whether "irrational exuberance" has taken over Wall Street.
That loyalty can also be foolish, to the extent where even Goodfellas materfamilias Karen Hill would question such irrational devotion.
A venture capitalist at a major firm called the presence of so many heavily backed players vying for a relatively small market "irrational competition," prompting the question: how could so many investors could have been seduced by the sector in the first place?
