Sentence examples for on irrational grounds from inspiring English sources

But if rival paradigms are really incommensurable, then doesn't that imply that scientific revolutions must be based – at least in part – on irrational grounds?

When any section of society is demonised on irrational grounds we have to take that seriously, so I will complain to the Press Complaints Commission, and I hope you will too.

Science was under attack "on all sorts of irrational grounds," he said.

Because homosexuality causes no direct harm to others (other than those who take offense at it on irrational and/or inhumane grounds) and because homosexual behavior is crucial to the ability of homosexual people to enjoy their lives (as heterosexual behavior is to heterosexuals), homosexuality should not be morally condemned or proscribed.

Some of them are based on irrational exuberance (or irrational pessimism).

We prove Strichartz estimates over large time scales for the Schrödinger equation set on irrational tori.

Consequentialists charge that such a restriction must be irrational, on the grounds that if stealing is forbidden then it must be bad but if it is bad then surely less stealing is better than more.

It keeps even the most irrational ideas grounded, and enables us to turn loose and push boundaries and embrace the irrational and complex.

The European commission, once the EU's source of visionary creativity, has become a fanatical defender of existing rules and regulations, however irrational and destructive, on the grounds that any concessions will beget more demands.

But for them to imagine it to be illogical or irrational is, in fact, more devastating to the future of this country than any on-the-ground expression of black distress could ever be.

In this view, the "limited paternalism" of the decision was justified not on moral grounds, but to protect the market from irrational behavior like Mrs. Williams's.