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    irrationality


    1. Crossing the road is a wager with the combustion engine and irrationality


    2. It's not that we don't have fully functioning brains, it's that they are over active and sometimes over functioning; this leads to an overload and then to temporary irrationality


    3. This behaviour is a potential link toward irrationality, which can be just as dangerous if not the same or worse than mental illness


    4. I think that Camus is telling us that the absurd person is fully aware of the irrationality of existence, embraces it, and exploits that irrationality to find happiness where there should be none


    5. Torbin could feel his heart pounding, and the butterflies in his stomach: an irrationality he thought belonged in his youth


    6. ” Irrationality, it seemed, would always be with us


    7. irrationality of how we practice medicine in the United States is not isolated to


    8. The question to be asked is: does this irrationality in medical care apply only to


    9. I thought this was an extremely good example of the hopeless irrationality exhibited by many people


    10. The look was that of compulsory that too often led to irrationality and ultimately defeat

    11. motivations of base emotion and irrationality, only the simple


    12. The trait of irrationality and the propensity for unsupported


    13. THE IRRATIONALITY OF RATIONING CAPITAL


    14. The very irrationality of hate


    15. CAN YOU SEE EVEN A LITTLE OF THIS IRRATIONALITY


    16. She no longer questioned the irrationality of the world of which


    17. Now as I speak to you, my irrationality, first in the accumulation of wealth and then in the destruction of it is seemingly coming to the fore; if only I had not lost my sense of balance in either case


    18. “The irrationality of psychopathy is not the emotional; its gratuitous irrationality is its lack of empathy


    19. “From irrationality comes the twins of Power over and Ownership of


    20. But all these worlds are comformed by our economic irrationality and obsession: the world is money based, though money is both unnecessary and the very system which is distorting and twisting the other logics – whose principle entelechy is health, not growth for growth's sake and accumulation for accumulation's obsession

    21. This our basic irrationality: we choose money over life


    22. Somehow, I managed to rebuff them, not because I have no feelings for them but because I felt that it would amount to irrationality on my part if I should allow another woman to have it


    23. I am a woman; my rationality and my irrationality is love and absolute intimacy


    24. Hallucinations and irrationality manifested themselves and they frightened me


    25. � In that very irrationality, it makes a powerful instrument in creating meaning perspectives


    26. � However, once we have entered into the irrational, and punishment and the fear it produces are irrational, the product of this irrationality happens outside of domination


    27. � No matter how powerful, the dominator may find it impossible to dominate the irrational response to its own acts of irrationality


    28. Sutton calls the irrationality of these forces that make these suicidal things happen ‘the ‘X” factor’


    29. And the experience of psychosis in the mentally ill can be related to ‘normal’ experiences regarding the intensity or irrationality of beliefs in ‘regular’ individuals (Chadwick, Birchwood & Trower, 1997)


    30. He understood that there were terrorists who hated the United States, he knew that, he hated them, hated their irrationality more than anything else about them, but he appreciated that in this world there were people willing to do crazy, suicidal acts for reasons that seemed almost frivolous to Quaid

    31. He accepted terrorism as a fact of life, as a consequence of irrationality


    32. 'It has been excogitated,’ the Sadducees would say, 'in recent ages by successive teachers, bent on moulding the Mosaic system to their own heathenish philosophy; and proving the thoroughly human character of its contents by its gross irrationality, its conspicuous injustice, and its frequent puerilities of interpretation


    33. ’ Evil men did not resemble beasts in evil speaking, but they resemble then in irrationality, and will be like them in their destiny


    34. by deeper ones — as the “irrational”, their irrationality being the more


    35. ensured by the absurdity of restraints, their irrationality and the ten-


    36. “I don’t know why Ma hates Annet, but it’s all so long in the past, and it’ s nothing to do with me or Amabel,” he said, with the indignation of youth against the irrationality of parents


    37. For that matter, it was far from certain they would defy the Inquisition if Maigwair asked them to, and Clyntahn’s goaded irrationality was only too plain to see


    38. The irrationality of the gambling spirit is well shown here by the absurd acceptance of unpaid preferred dividends as a source of value for both the preferred and the common


    39. Irrationality could go no further; yet it is important to note that mass speculation can flourish only in such an atmosphere of illogic and unreality


    40. Thus, with the encouragement of the manipulator, the speculative public pulls itself up by its bootstraps to dizzier heights of irrationality

    41. But true insanity? Irrationality and obsession that come from nowhere, with no explanation? That would have to be left behind, as a sort of spiritual remainder


    42. There is a strong tendency for prices in OPMI markets, both high and low, to have elements of irrationality that do not exist to anywhere near the same extent in negotiated transactions between reasonably knowledgeable buyers and sellers


    43. This is a perfect example of how investor irrationality can provide opportunity for us


    44. He had ceased drinking at a point below irrationality, and had neither stirred nor spoken during two or three hours


    45. • Expected returns can vary over time due to rationally time-varying risk or risk aversion and due to investor irrationality and sentiment


    46. These patterns hint at irrationality but could be rationally justified with timevarying risk premia (because discount rate variation is another cause of volatility, in addition to the variation of expected cash flows that Shiller focused on)


    47. The next chapter covers investor irrationality in detail; here I make brief remarks on rational learning


    48. One need not resort to irrationality to explain these behaviors


    49. • Behavioral finance states that investor irrationality causes systematic mispricings that rational arbitrageurs cannot fully offset due to scarce capital and riskiness of “arbitrage”


    50. • I use the terms “investor irrationality” and “market inefficiency” interchangeably because the former is often thought to imply the latter
























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    Synonyms for "irrationality"

    irrationality unreason

    "irrationality" definitions

    the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding