Irrationality

Irrationality measure The irrationality measure (or irrationality exponent or approximation exponent or Liouville–Roth constant) of a real number x is a measure of how "closely" it can be approximated by rationals.

That’s when rational decision-making gives way to fear and irrationality.

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.

A marker in this journey towards greater irrationality and superstition was the creation of Bodhi Pooja culture by Panadura Ariyadamma Thero.

Munger used this metaphor as a reminder to avoid getting caught up in the market’s mood swings and to take advantage of its irrationality.

If you really believe that, you are obviously blinded into irrationality by your hatred and need of therapy and prayer.

But the irrationality of the act is a match for the ugly and misleading statements of America’s president, decrying Mexican “murderers and rapists” when the evidence shows these immigrants are less likely than native-born Americans to commit crimes.

Hence the question of the Constitution giving us “the right to have a certain amount of irrationality and blind belief” does not arise if such a belief, irrational or logical, falls afoul of the aforementioned clause.

A routine transaction with the Greek civil service can easily develop into an odyssey of irrationality.

But, Holton responds, consumption here need not be a result of irrationality; rather consumption simply indicates that one is responding to a desire that is from rationality.

Certainly, proportional voting systems don’t solve the deeper problems of political irrationality that Achen and Bartels so dutifully detail in Democracy for Realists.

It is sometimes characterized by childishness, and by irrationality.

It is there to educate people, not educate people into imbecility, into irrationality and into the destruction of the sexual revolution and its sacrament of abortion.

Our nation’s priorities have long since been skewed toward irrationality.

There is a sense of irrationality in this image of the helmet without a human head.

Applications The fact that any rational number has a unique representation as an irreducible fraction is utilized in various proofs of the irrationality of the square root of 2 and of other irrational numbers.

Buddhism as philosophy, 2007, page 82. According to this argument, anyone who is selfish does so out of ignorance of the true nature of personal identity and irrationality.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online, p.13 The Moon has long been associated with insanity and irrationality; the words lunacy and lunatic (popular shortening loony) are derived from the Latin name for the Moon, Luna.

Gustavo Perednik has argued that what he terms "Judeophobia" has a number of unique traits which set it apart from other forms of racism, including permanence, depth, obsessiveness, irrationality, endurance, ubiquity, and danger.

In the late tractate 2.3, "Are the stars causes?", Plotinus makes the argument that specific stars influencing one's fortune (a common Hellenistic theme) attributes irrationality to a perfect universe, and invites moral turpitude.