nonrational

How To Use nonrational In A Sentence

• there is a great deal that is nonrational in modern culture
• Arguing over such things and what they mean is great fun, so it's disappointing, part-way into "Mind Over Money," to see the show staggering toward a pit of ancient dung about an alleged struggle between economists who believe in efficient markets and study price signals, and behaviorists who study examples of seemingly nonrational economic behavior, such as "present bias. Too Crazed to Trade?
• True that ads drive brand loyalty in nonrational ways dealing with a particular product. IPSC: trademark and the consumer
• The model is also consistent with the growing recognition of nonrational and nonconscious processes in cognition.
• Belief in feeling, instinct, or other nonrational forces rather than reason.
• Those processes belong to the nonrational component of scientific discovery and, as such, are not methodological. The Scientist
• The German word Einfühling literally means “feeling into another” and conveys the somewhat primitive, nonrational quality of empathy. Red Flags or Red Herrings?
• Pareto's 1901 essay "The Rise and Fall of Elites," conveys two themes to which Schumpeter would return time and time again: the inevitability of elites, and the importance of nonrational and nonlogical drives in explaining social action. Jerry Muller on Schumpeter, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• In such circumstances, arguments are invented to justify actions that were arrived at before the facts were examined, motivated by nonrational drives.p. 306: Jerry Muller on Schumpeter, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• She starts to reach for more nonrational explanations, lamenting 'the poverty of metaphysical speculation in our time'. Times, Sunday Times