Sentences with phrase «rational irrationality»

Rational Irrationality: Modeling Climate Change Belief Polarization Using Bayesian Networks.

Cook, J. & Lewandowsky, S. Rational irrationality: Modeling climate change belief polarization using Bayesian networks.

That's the Indians right now, caught between the pragmatic desire to build something sustainable and the rational irrationality that comes with capital - G Going For It.

Not exact matches

Rational debate is not productive with someone who had stated their irrationality.

Hitch was wonderfully rational, a logical positivist and warrior against all forms of irrationality and illogic.

Because in a rational thinking society, irrationality must be put in its place — at the very bottom of the pile with the other fairy tales.

In addition to these crazy and immoral laws, there are plenty of examples of God's irrationality by his direct killing of many people for reasons that defy any rational explanation such as killing children who make fun of bald people, and the killing of a man who tried to keep the ark of God from falling during transport.

In as far as the work of the demiurge is imperfect, it does not allow science - either empirical, or rational - because the deviation from the original telos follows no rules, but arises from a principle of irrationality.

Thus the Hegelian proposition turns into its opposite through Hegelian dialectics itself: All that is real in the sphere of human history becomes irrational in the process of time, is therefore irrational by its very destination, is tainted beforehand with irrationality; and everything which is rational in the minds of men is destined to become real, no matter how much it contradicts existing apparent reality.

If the universe is sane and rational, there is no place for irrationality.

On this traditional model, human beings conceived of as rational actors were only occasionally subject to flights of irrationality in those rare moments when emotions overtook them.

But we are not rational — not in love or war or business — and this particular irrationality is what economists call the «sunk - cost fallacy.»

They are, at base, looking for investors rational enough to profit from the irrationality of others.

In the past few years, Pierre Bismuth has regularly integrated dynamics of randomness and irrationality as a strategy in developing determined and rational ideas.

[1] In its narrowest sense, the goal of this methodological principle is to avoid attributing irrationality, logical fallacies or falsehoods to the others» statements, when a coherent, rational interpretation of the statements is available.»

I wish I could believe it... this comment does not imply Judith C has not been courageous in her defence of objective, rational analyses, only that irrationality is indeed a very difficult beast to tame.