nonrational in a sentence

Examples

1. At the Harvard Law School, Martha Minow, a professor who specializes in family and school issues, said that intolerance often arises when the behavior of immigrants seems to be " nonmodern, nonscientific and nonrational ."
2. Surveys show that, if anything, Americans became increasingly enchanted with superstitions and other forms of nonrational thinking as the new millennium approached, epitomized by the popularity of the TV show, " X-Files ."
3. In remarks to the House Financial Services Committee, he conceded that consumer confidence can be unpredictable : " Our economic models have never been particularly successful in capturing a process driven in large part by nonrational behavior ."
4. Since everything in nature can be wholly explained in terms of nonrational causes, human reason ( more precisely, the power of drawing conclusions based solely on the rational cause of logical insight ) must have a source outside of nature.
5. The notion of " experience " fits in a popular set of dichotomies : pure ( unmediated ) versus mediated, noncognitive versus cognitive, experiential versus intellectual, intuitive versus intellectual, nonrational versus rational, nondiscursive versus discursive, nonpropositional versus propositional.
6. So-called " broad " naturalists that see consciousness as an " emergent " non-physical property of complex brains would agree with Lewis that different levels or types of causation exist in nature, and that rational inferences are not fully explainable by nonrational causes.
7. First is what he calls " pseudo-self-esteem, " which he describes as " an irrational pretense at self-value, " and " a nonrational, self-protective device to diminish anxiety and to provide a spurious sense of security ".
8. In an open letter published Tuesday in the Chronicle, Tyler told the Unabomber that he is not alone in feeling discontented with today's society, and, " It is wrong to simply say that people who are dissatisfied are in some way nonrational ."
9. "The problem was, there was so much capital available, there were some nonrational decisions made about going into markets that already had " too much competition, said Jim Moffett, a former executive with Brooks Fiber, an early competitor based in St . Louis.
10. At the theological academy, Golubinsky repeatedly ran afoul of his conservative minded colleagues such as Konstantin Pobedonostsev, because he employed the innovative method of Positivism : " the objective study of a phenomenon to find a positive solution based on logic as opposed to superstition or some other nonrational approach ".