Sentence examples for wholly rational from inspiring English sources

The reasons are complex, historical, and probably not wholly rational.

We think of scientists as wholly rational, open to all possible arguments.

The elephant is essentially an Ashkenazi animal, but a wholly rational one — it, too, wants to live forever.

If conscious life is not wholly rational, driven as much by emotions and intuitions, then the patterns and instincts of the unconscious are even more buried and obscure.

But the same urge for consistency at any cost is often evident among wholly rational metric advocates, who seldom acknowledge that there could be situations in which coldly logical metric units work less well than quirkier alternatives.

It's a wholly rational panic, because there's a lot of bad debt out there, and you don't know how much of that bad debt is held by the guy who wants to borrow your money.

"He was completely rational.

More generally Herbert Simon was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics for his idea that information and other constraints will always prevent wholly pure rational judgement and decision making – we will always operate in a boundedly rational environment [ 41, 42].

The tragic irony is that by treating Hamas as wholly absent of rational self-interest, Israel has created the circumstance in which rational self-interest loses a voice, not because every Gazan wants to blow up Israel but because the vast majority who want peace can't really argue with those who don't when their houses are being blown to pieces.

This can't be explained wholly in cold, rational terms.

The attempts to reverse-engineer reality, to constantly move the goalposts, and to refuse to acknowledge the truth ― that this is all just a rambling conspiracy theory wholly divorced from the rational world ―  are the birther stock-in-trade.