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- adjective Lacking or (especially) opposed to
reason andrational thought.
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Examples
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And Democratic strategist, Robert Zimmerman, also a Democratic antirational committeeman, and absolute expert on vice presidential debates, which is the reason I turn first to you.
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It's being both antirational and anti-intellectual.
Wednesday M-mv 2008
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The second objection from the Dawkins school of evolutionary atheism is another straw man: that religion is antirational.
The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006
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The second objection from the Dawkins school of evolutionary atheism is another straw man: that religion is antirational.
The Language of God Francis S. Collins 2006
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The fact that German thought had taken an antirational and antiliberal turn with Nietzsche, and even more so with Heidegger, was evident.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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Without being seduced by its undemocratic and antirational mystique, tradition does provide a counterpoise to and a repair from the merely current, and contains the petrified remains of old wisdom along with much that is not wisdom.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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The fact that German thought had taken an antirational and antiliberal turn with Nietzsche, and even more so with Heidegger, was evident.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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Without being seduced by its undemocratic and antirational mystique, tradition does provide a counterpoise to and a repair from the merely current, and contains the petrified remains of old wisdom along with much that is not wisdom.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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And no doubt there are situations, on campuses and off, which however conducive to innovation fail to give birth to any; it would be antirational of us to view them as other than a missed opportunity.
Violence & Civility Davis, Chandler 1970
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In the Muslim world, how - ever, where more direct contact with classical sources existed, some of the antirational theologians made use of skeptical materials in order to challenge the meta - physical views of the Jewish and Islamic philosophers.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas RICHARD H. POPKIN 1968
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