non-rational

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Meaning

Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational.

Lacking the ability to reason.

(often philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.

(economics, social sciences, public policy) Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization.

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However, the whole notion of EMH is that these non-rational reactions to information cancel out, leaving the prices of stocks rationally determined. Source: Internet

Kierkegaard stated that a belief in anything beyond the Absurd requires a non-rational but perhaps necessary religious acceptance in such an intangible and empirically unprovable thing (now commonly referred to as a " leap of faith "). Source: Internet

For Schopenhauer things in themselves do not exist outside the non-rational will. Source: Internet

From this perspective, the existence of non-rational accounts of reality can be explained by the benefits they offer to society. Source: Internet

His sociology holds that much social action is nonlogical and that much personal action is designed to give spurious logicality to non-rational actions. Source: Internet

In the self-governance model of Aristotelian virtue, the non-rational part of the soul can be made to listen to reason through training. Source: Internet

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