Irrational vs Arational - What's the difference?
irrational | arational |
Not rational; unfounded or nonsensical.
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
(mathematics, arithmetic, number theory, not comparable) Of a real number, that cannot be written as the ratio of two integers.
A real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.
* 1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.24:
(chiefly, philosophy) Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; not rational, outside the competence of the rules of reason.
* 1938 , Marten Ten Hoor, "The Philistines over Philosophy," The Journal of Philosophy , vol. 35, no. 20, p. 542:
* 1974 , , "Why Should I Believe in Science?" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research , vol. 34, no. 4, p. 484:
*1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 146:
*:Regarded with the objectivity of hindsight, the illusion appears arational , almost fantastic: it would be like being able both to lie and to trust other people at the same time.
* 2001 , Ronald De Sousa, "Moral Emotions," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice , vol. 4, no. 2, p. 109:
Arational is a antonym of irrational.
Arational is a related term of irrational.
As adjectives the difference between irrational and arational
is that irrational is not rational; unfounded or nonsensical while arational is not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; not rational, outside the competence of the rules of reason.As a noun irrational
is a real number that can not be expressed as the quotient of two integers, an irrational number.irrational
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Adjective
(en adjective)- an irrational decision
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
- The number π is irrational .
Antonyms
* (mathematics) rationalHyponyms
* (mathematics) transcendentalDerived terms
* irrational number * irrationality * irrationalize * irrationalizationNoun
(en noun)- The square root of 2, which was the first irrational to be discovered, was known to the early Pythagoreans, and ingenious methods of approximating to its value were discovered.
arational
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Adjective
(en adjective)- If the end-product of a man's philosophizing about the nature of the cosmos is the ultimate, arational matter, this will affect his moral opinion of the cosmos.
- Scientific knowledge is conceptual, rational, and testable. Mystical knowledge is usually aconceptual, arational , and does not lend itself to interpersonal testing.
- On the first view, emotions are purely biological phenomena. . . . They are arational and amoral, like other natural bodily functions.
