All 3 Uses of
irrational
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- Admittedly, I have some anxiety problems, but I would argue it isn't irrational to be concerned about the fact that you are a skin-encased bacterial colony.
p. 3.9 *irrational = unreasonable
- Holmesy, you're being irrational.
p. 21.8
- This was not irrational worry, because dried blood was unusual, even for when the callus was cracked open.
p. 129.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(irrational) not reasonable
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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.