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Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason

Although some nonrational elements may be inconsistent with legal ideals, others—emotions and intuitions of certain types, imagination, judgment, rhetorical persuasiveness (considered below)—are fully consistent with those ideals.

Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational

Indeed, the tirade against information in effect serves to justify the constriction of the area of rationality and scientific approach, in order to find room for all kinds of non-rational sources of knowledge..

Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization

In the nature of things there must be causes that explain why an industrial enterprise—mill, factory, foundry, dairy, refinery—is located at just this or that place, and not somewhere else. Some of these causes are non-rational, such as accident and caprice. . . . The remaining causes are rational and economic; that is, the selected locality is deemed to offer certain advantages in production or marketing.

Lacking the ability to reason

But what of non-rational beings—the animal or infant-man of attuition?.

nonrational
{s} not rational, not logical
nonrational
not based on reason; "there is a great deal that is nonrational in modern culture"
nonrational
obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation
nonrational
not based on reason; "there is a great deal that is nonrational in modern culture