All 7 Uses
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Snow Crash
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- Said it was irrational mysticism.†
Chpt 7-8 *irrational = unreasonable
- They don't have any problem with irrational mysticism as long as it makes money.†
Chpt 7-8
- But there have been several efforts to deliver us from the hands of primitive, irrational religion.†
Chpt 25-26
- Just going on pure, irrational bias, I'm guessing L. Bob Rife.†
Chpt 27-28
- I would guess that it also tends to encourage irrational behavior, maybe lowers the victim's defenses to viral ideas, makes them sexually promiscuous, perhaps all of the above.†
Chpt 55-56
- No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for selireplicating information.†
Chpt 55-56
- In this new version of the gospels, Jesus came back to earth and organized a church, which later became the Church of the Eastern and Western Roman Empire-another rigid, brutal, and irrational theocracy.†
Chpt 55-56
Definitions:
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(irrational) not reasonable
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, irrational numbers in mathematics are numbers that cannot be expressed as a fraction consisting of only an integer in the numerator and denominator. For example, pi is an irrational number while 1/3 is rational.