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sub-rational
adjective
(alsosubrational)uk /ˌsʌbˈræʃ.ən.əl/ us /ˈsʌbˌræʃ.ən.əl/
not involving reason or conscious thinking:
He wrote a brilliant analysis of how political appeal works at a sub-rational level.
We may not be aware of the influence of subrational motivations such as emotional attraction or aversion.
People may disapprove of others partly due to sub-rational reasons, such as antipathy to someone who is "not like me".
He tried hard to examine his own prejudices in order to discover their sub-rational source.
Classical Greek playwrights understood that emotion can be a subrational form of knowledge.
These are sub-rational, unexamined and unconscious ways of dealing with reality.
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