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  • adjective of thought, etc. above, yet including the rational; encompassing a truth of scope greater than ordinary logic or reason.

Etymologies

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From supra- +‎ rational. From Latin suprā ("above") and Old French rationel, rational, from Latin rationalis ("of or belonging to reason, rational, reasonable"), from ratio ("reason")

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Examples

  • The others obtainable through means other than reason are not irrational; they are extra-rational or suprarational.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • The others obtainable through means other than reason are not irrational; they are extra-rational or suprarational.

    Great Regulars: I can see from the above poem that rational Rus Bowden 2009

  • This realisation can come only when he has eliminated his egoism, transcended his rationalism and climbed up to a suprarational and spiritual plane.

    In the olden times people fought to satisfy national greed and dynastic ambition Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • Given Maritain's account of faith and of suprarational knowledge, it would seem that he would see religious beliefs as ˜trusts™ and, hence, as having more than a purely cognitive character.

    Jacques Maritain Sweet, William 2008

  • This realisation can come only when he has eliminated his egoism, transcended his rationalism and climbed up to a suprarational and spiritual plane.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

  • In his book The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), he presented mysticism as a suprarational emotion, which brings the human mind, through an immediate intuitive feeling, into contact with the élan vital (the creative force of life) or what he also called la durée (duration).

    Sri Aurobindo, Bergson, Levinas, Ricoeur Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Conversely, wherever redemption forms the central thought, need is felt of a suprarational truth, which no longer views morality as the only aim, and which, again, requires particular media, a sacred history and sacred symbols.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Because the riddles about the world which it desires to solve are not properly intellectual, but practical, because it desires to be in the end [Greek: gnôsis sôtêrías], it removes into the region of the suprarational the powers which are supposed to confer vigour and life on the human spirit.

    History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • As, however, in consequence of philosophical tradition, neither Philo, nor the Gnostics, nor Clement, nor the Neoplatonists were able to shake themselves free from the intellectual _scheme_, those things which -- as they instinctively felt, but did not recognise -- could really not be ascertained by knowledge at all received from them the name of _suprarational_ and were traced to divine revelation.

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • Thus a man of learning and knowledge can go the extent of “pure” reason, but to go beyond it, into the suprarational, is not known to him—unless there’s something that can open in him.

    There is no methodology by which he can reach it in a step by step manner Tusar N Mohapatra 2008

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