Irrational

While irrational emotional responses are common all around us, I would like to discuss today a far-reaching irrationality that I believe is overlooked, albeit important: our irrational approach to the fight against corruption.

E.g., there is nothing irrational in preferring fish to meat the first time, but there is something irrational in preferring fish to meat in one instant and preferring meat to fish in another, without anything else having changed.

Epictetus, Discourses, iii.3.14–19; Enchiridion, 6 Reason alone is good, and the irrational is evil, and the irrational is intolerable to the rational.

Irrational numbers The table below gives the expansions of some common irrational numbers in decimal and hexadecimal.

Non-dyadic time signatures are called irrational in musical terminology, but this usage does not correspond to the irrational numbers of mathematics, because they still consist of ratios of integers.

The irrational numbers have the same property, but the Cantor set has the additional property of being closed, so it is not even dense in any interval, unlike the irrational numbers which are dense in every interval.

This article uses irrational in the music theory sense, not the mathematical sense, where an irrational number is one that cannot be written as a ratio of whole numbers.

A phobia is usually classified as an irrational or illogical fear of something.

Based on Dan Ariely’s novel “Predictably Irrational,” the show tells the story of a scientist Alec Mercer played by Jesse L. Martin.

But underneath his seemingly normal exterior, Orion is a ball of adolescent anxiety, completely consumed by irrational fears of bees, dogs, the ocean, cell phone waves, murderous gutter clowns, and even falling off of a cliff.

By creating a positive context around public speaking, it begins the process of enabling a person to overcome an otherwise irrational fear by rationalizing it.

California is an outlier because of its high level of hoplophobia (the irrational fear of weapons), its anti-2nd Amendment and anti-gun bias, and its bigotry against law-abiding gun owners and people who wish to become gun owners.

Can we trust our brains if it evolved from impersonal forces, not to mention irrational and random processes?

During this time, AIEQ could showcase its unique strategy that serves to eliminate the biases and emotions that contribute to irrational stock picking within humans.

Electorate after electorate has fallen victim to a string of self-serving narcissists prepared to exploit irrational fears, issue empty promises and bend, ignore or break the law in blatant pursuit of power and self-interest.

He is known for making irrational decisions and carelessly employing the use of violence at the first opportunity.

How to bridge this slightly irrational gap?

I believe it’s irrational, silly, unconstitutional and nothing to be happy with.

Instead, the sanctions will push the regime to transform itself into its darkest state, create grounds for miscalculations, and decrease the competency of the bureaucracy, leading to irrational, mistaken choices.

In the letter, the NPO said the regulations were irrational and that “a confused, inconsistent and misleading narrative” was being propagated by the government.