Pyrrhonism accepts the irrationality and revels in its dialectic elaboration.
The dread irrationality of the whole affair, as it seems to children, is a thing we are all too ready to forget.
The unfading boyishness of hope and its vigorous irrationality are nowhere better displayed than in questions of conduct.
The irrationality of the great process is shown by its so-called accidentalness, which perforce we ought to deny, since, obviously, we cannot think of a process not being causally and necessarily conditioned.
This means was employed from the earliest times, especially by those who had gained possession of authority, and for a long while its irrationality was not detected.
Indeed, it could not be so, neither the former nor the latter could fail to see the irrationality of their conduct, if the complexity of government organization did not obscure the unnatural senselessness of their actions.
The obvious irrationality of nature as a whole, too painfully brought home to a musing mind, may make it forget or abdicate its own rationality.
The only irrationality left would be the irrationality of which pluralism as such is accused, and of this I hope to say a word more later.
Bradley holds to the intellectualist logic, and by dint of it convicts the human universe of being irrationality incarnate.
Theologians have felt its irrationality acutely, and the 'fall,' the predestination, and the election which the situation involves have given them more trouble than anything else in their attempt to pantheize Christianity.
If rationality be in it at all, it must be in it throughout; if irrationality be in it anywhere, that also must pervade it throughout.
The logical proof alleged of the irrationality of supposing otherwise, is that you can deny the whole only in words that implicitly assert it.
The vision in his case was that of a world in which reason holds all things in solution and accounts for all the irrationality that superficially appears by taking it up as a 'moment' into itself.
Irrationality and externality cannot be the last truth about things.
So far, the irrationality may appear in another light from this point of view, as hence the conflicts and the convulsions may themselves be factors which help life to realise its own ideal and to establish it in the new world.
This means has been employed since remote antiquity, especially by those men who usurped the power, and men for a long time did not see the irrationality of this means.
This irrationality is concealed by the fact that in the commission of each of these acts there are so many instigators, accomplices, abettors, that not one of the men taking part in it feels himself to be morally responsible.
Come to your senses and believe in the Gospel," Christ said eighteen hundred years ago, and says now with even greater convincingness, through the utter wretchedness and irrationality of our life, predicted by Him and now an accomplished fact.
He is tormented, not only by the irrationality of the material world and the absence of beauty in it, but also by its lack of love, by its disunion.
Irrationality (See also Miracles): Neo-Platonic teaching as to, i.
Of course Origen, like every other Christian doctor, had his fundamental and saving irrationalityin his acceptance of the Christian revelation and the risen Christ.
It has appeared that metaphysical interests absorbed the attention of Plotinus, who has nevertheless his supreme irrationality atop of all.
This Plotinean irrationality was lofty; but it was too transcendent, too difficult, and too unrelated to the human heart, to satisfy other men.
And likewise with Christians, as with Neo-Platonists, phases of irrationality may be observed in ascending and descending order.
In this scope, perhaps it could be said that irrationality is an attempt to "mask" selfishness, for few who act toward the benefit of humanity will inflict upon it needless pain.
Communication's effect on adversity is that of purification, for conversation purges minds of fear and lonliness and gradually filters irrationality from one's thoughts into non-existence.
Any spectacular irrationality that you may hereafter develop in connection with Miss Westfall, will lead to its disclosure.
Is it not the height of irrationality to bow down before an unexplained and mysterious impulse and allow it to sway our conduct without knowing why?
The increase of knowledge, the development of science and philosophy, bring floods of new ideas to burst the old dams; deepening insight reveals the irrationality of old ideas to the leaders of thought.
The great historical instance of the discovery of the relativity and irrationality of customary morality and the emergence of reflective standards of moral value is the Athenian period of Greek philosophy.
Part of this discrepancy is not to be set down to the evils men actually do so much as the irrationality and fanaticism of the codes which they have been taught to profess.
The Sophists pointed out with merciless perspicuity the welter, the confusion, the essential irrationality of current social and religious traditions and beliefs.
But there certainly was, over and above this grotesqueness, a perversity and irrationality about the man which led him to play the fool in the middle of his own poems; to leave off carving gargoyles and simply begin throwing stones.
But the quality of his moral comment on the age remains what I have said: a protest of the rationality of religion as against the increasing irrationality of mere Victorian comfort and compromise.
Even where the decisions of the community seem most irrational, and where there appears to be little consciousness of the ends pursued by the real will, the discriminating observer may see that pure irrationality does not prevail.
But no small part of the irrationality of the actual social will must be set down, in the last instance, to that peculiar form of irrationality in the individual or in groups of individuals which we call selfishness.
In each case, we are concerned with the work of reason, and judgments as to rationality and irrationality are equally in place.
If we summarize all this, we have a quantity of concessions by the formal epistemological rationalism to the irrationality of the psychological facts and a repeated breaking down of the over-rigorous Kantian rationalism.
In a word, it is the same with the irrationalityas it is with the immorality of mythology: myths are the work and the product of the common consciousness.
No less clear, on a critical analysis, is the irrationality of the instinct of racial pride which underlies that conception, and which is involved in perhaps half of the strifes of tribes, States, and nations.
Yet perhaps most of the reflections made by historical writers in the way of generalisations of the history of States and peoples are in terms of the fallacy and the irrationality in question.
The literate discourse of theories or of an advertisement can only acknowledge the irrationality and suggest explanations.
When the body, or parts of it, became a goal in itself, the rationality of physical fitness for survival is contradicted by the irrationality of fitness for reasons other than individual and communal well-being.
The term irrationality describes a contradiction of common sense rules (or economic theories setting them forth) of exchange of goods.
The allusion is to the traditional story of the coalheaver whom the devil sought to convince of the irrationality of belief in the Trinity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "irrationality" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
