Weighing all interests in a rational balance, I suspect it is better to impose strict safety tests on Arcachon oysters, even if I love the place, because so many more people eat the things than produce the things.
There it is before you — smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, 'Come and find out.' We make these decisions, I suspect, not because we're rational, but because we're curious.
But I suspect a bigger part is pure rational calculation.
Given these problems with the estimation of a priori risk levels, the threshold method becomes suspect as a prescriptive means of rational decision making.
But I also suspect my current reaction is more emotional than rational.
The Central Library will appeal to those who suspect that the subconscious may be more exact -- more rational, in fact -- than the faculty of conscious reasoning.
Thomas L. Friedman asserts, "All that the Europeans care about is being able to say to George Bush, 'We told you so".' I suspect that their disinclination to help President Bush is much more rational.
A forensic detective says that the term "rational insanity" was found in the web browser search history of a computer belonging to Colorado theater shooting suspect James Holmes.
"I suspect him of being wise, of having a vision that subtly and politely exceeds that of ordinary people... [the book] achieves a tragic synthesis... that makes little rational sense, but that reverberates powerfully in the mind".
And I suspect that on accepting the cabinet position in the Bush administration, he was misled into believing that this was going to be a moderate one with a rational foreign policy.
