Sentence examples for irrational reasoning from inspiring English sources

Author William Faulkner, a prominent Mississippi native who often focused on racial issues, wrote two essays on Till: one before the trial in which he pleaded for American unity and one after, a piece titled "On Fear" that was published in Harper's in 1956, in which he questioned why the tenets of segregation were based on irrational reasoning.

But if reasons do not transmit in this way, the picture appears to be one of 'rational irrationality': having reason to adopt or sustain an irrational pattern of reasoning, on the ground that the results of doing so are mostly for the best.

The play focused on the fact that once accused, a person had little chance of exoneration, given the irrational and circular reasoning of both the courts and the public.

His fables take big, irrational leaps of faith whose reasoning is symbolic rather than psychological.

In 2003, after the State Parole Board concluded that his offense "represents a propensity for extreme violence," a state appeals court ridiculed that reasoning as "so irrational under the circumstances as to border on impropriety".

He treated Macaulay's argument as simply irrational; an attack upon the reasoning faculty; an example of the saying of Hobbes, that when reason is against a man, a man will be against reason (J.S. Mill 1969, 95)." Yet the younger Mill's account of his father's reaction to Macaulay's "famous attack" (as the son later described it) is misleading in at least two respects.

Studies have shown that only about 15 percent of people manage not to panic, with a whopping 70 percent suffering from impaired reasoning and 15 percent becoming irrational.

Passions cannot, strictly speaking, be evaluated as reasonable or unreasonable, despite our practice of calling passions unreasonable or irrational when they depend in some way on poor reasoning or false beliefs.

The problem here is not that Moore's principle is incorrect, but rather that it seems irrational since it puts a block on moral reasoning.

The most irrational of things have a rational worst-case reasoning behind them.

The majority of respondents who selected dominated profiles provided detailed explanations of their reasoning that could not be considered irrational.