pre-rational

• “This becomes obvious when that which is "abnormal" invokes a conditioned disgust response, an affect of pre-rational revulsion, the sort of profound and unconsidered (perhaps unconsiderable) abhorrence that leads to the action being vitriolically condemned as an "abomination".”

  An Open Letter to John C. Wright

• “Magical thinking is best thought of as pre-rational reasoning.”

  The Huffington Post: Bob Burnett: What Caused the BP Oil Leak? Magical Thinking

• “It's a un- or pre-rational feeling, pure emotion and physicality, like I'm going to expire on the spot.”

  Ferule & Fescue

• “When individuals are unable to adapt to the world and establish control through rational means, they naturally revert to pre-rational modes of adaptation, following, specifically, the principles of operant conditioning excessively. 1 This involves increasing behavior that was followed by success and decreasing behavior that was followed by failure.”

  The Origin of Sin

• “If we can't logically prove God's existence, then isn't God just a wishful delusion, a manipulative construct of control-based religion, or a pre-rational fantasy?”

  Alan Lurie: Looking for God in All the Wrong Places

• “We may prize reason, but our limbic system -- the reptile part of our brain, the governor of our emotions, the seat of pleasure and fear and attention and memory -- is pre-rational.”

  Marty Kaplan: If You Liked Health Care, You'll Love Afghanistan

• “People who think as she does are largely pre-rational in their beliefs, which can't be defeated with reason - she and people like her will hold tighter and tighter to her faith the more she is challenged.”

  Prop 8 and Pre-rational Worldviews

• “Identity politics, in the modern sense, is associated with ideologies, but for Connolly, identity formations go down to pre-rational consolidations.”

  Identity has its animal or perhaps even mineral basis

• “Identity has its animal or perhaps even mineral basis and worse, the ideational immixture in the pre-rational psychology makes identity vulnerable to sub-rational behavioral conditioning, a political lesson all fundamentalist and totalitarian ideologies know only too well.”

  Identity has its animal or perhaps even mineral basis

• “The latter sometimes seems easy and comfortable but it leads to nightmares- it promises the transcendant Divine, but actually leads to a worldview which falsely inscribes the themes of our pre-rational social-animal existence onto the universe, in jarring contradiction to what reason shows the universe and the human situation to look like.”

  On missing the point

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