nonrational

Speech parts

1. nonrational - Adjective

2. nonrational - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation

not based on reason

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Examples

When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it. Carroll Quigley

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities. Albert Schweitzer

If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn't show systematic change over human history. But they do. Paul Bloom

The whole tendency of empiricism and democracy in speech, dress and manners has been toward a plainness which is without symbolic significance. The power of symbolism is greatly feared by those who wish to expel from life all that is nonrational in the sense of being nonutilitarian. Richard Weaver

there is a great deal that is nonrational in modern culture Source: Internet

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