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."
Lacking the ability to reason.
But what of non-rational beings—the animal or infant-man of attuition?
Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.
In the total artistic process the two phases—rational and non-rational, planful and inspirational—may be successive or simultaneous.
From non- + rational.
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