antirational
Adjective

antirational

  1. Lacking or (especially) opposed to reason and rational thought.
    • 1839 November, “G.E.E.”, “Article III — Tracts for the Times. […] ” (book review), in The Christian Examiner and General Review, Volume XXVII, Number II, pages 196-197 ↗:
      This view is further illustrated by bringing forward the Catholic doctrines, showing the “antirational notion of them,”SIC apparent misquotation and thus exhibiting “the mysterious bearings and incomplete character of the Revelation.”
    • 1995, Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical, Penn State Press, ISBN 978-0-271-01441-8, page 328 ↗:
      Rand refused to detach even a seemingly radical rebellion from the social totality in which it emerged. The New Left was as much an outgrowth of the antirational as the culture it had rejected.
    • 2009, Eugene Webb, Worldview and Mind: Religious Thought and Psychological Development, University of Missouri Press, ISBN 978-0-8262-1833-9, page 61 ↗:
      His own conception of a genuine (fifth order) postmodernism is not at all antirational and embraces everything that was a source of real strength in the fourth (“modern”) order of consciousness.
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