Questions relating to Stoic psychological monism have been most widely discussed with a view to the theory of the emotions here, it makes a great difference whether we think that irrational desires can overcome reason, or are irrational acts of the rational soul.
Right now I think the irrational thing would be to say: 'No, I don't feel like coaching again.
After Mr. Greenspan's speech on Tuesday, it was tempting to think that "irrational exuberance" had been conquered once and for all.
A few sessions later, after Salo W. Baron, Professor of Jewish History at Columbia University, had testified to the more recent history of Eastern European Jewry, Dr. Servatius could no longer resist temptation and asked the obvious questions: "Why did all this bad luck fall upon the Jewish people?" and "Don't you think that irrational motives are at the basis of the fate of this people?
We don't deliberate about the past; we think it irrational to do anything aimed at trying to change or affect the past.
Even if the embedding problem is solved, so that we know what moral utterances mean and what complex sentences embedding them also mean, we might still think it irrational to reason in accordance with ordinary logical principles applied to such judgments.
"And we think that irrational fear is what's driving his anti-immigrant message".
He expresses bafflement over the high regard in which "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan" continue to be held ("People really latched on to 'Manhattan' in a way that I thought was irrational," he says) and makes a strong case for "Manhattan Murder Mystery," his underappreciated 1993 reunion picture with Diane Keaton.
Thus Khayyam thinks of irrational magnitudes as numbers themselves, which effectively defines the set of "real numbers" that we take for granted today.
If the state cannot force A to sell the shovel to B, it might be thought completely irrational for the state to prohibit A and B from entering into a consensual and mutually advantageous transaction.
