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Definition of Irrational motive
1. Noun. A motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logic.
Specialized synonyms: Irrational Impulse, Cacoethes, Mania, Passion, Compulsion, Obsession
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrational Motive
Literary usage of Irrational motive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Neighbor: The Natural History of Human Contacts by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1904)
"Many like examples could be cited to show that the commonest misuse of the reason
and the imagination is to devise notions to support an irrational motive ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... and the imagination is to support an irrational motive which is strong enough
to be mastering, yet is felt to need explanation " (The Neighbor, p. ..."
3. Comte, Mill, and Spencer: An Outline of Philosophy by John Watson (1895)
"... the rational motive of self-realization by identification with others for the
irrational motive of self-realization by separation from others. ..."
4. An Outline of Philosophy: With Notes, Historical and Critical by John Watson (1898)
"... the rational motive of self-realization by identification with others for the
irrational motive of self-realization by separation from others. ..."
5. Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and by Richard Watson (1851)
"... and conduct; and if any necessity bind the irrational motive upon the will,
it is either the result of bad voluntary habit, for which we are accountable ..."
6. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1899)
"There are all degrees of imperfection and irrational motive from the pronounced
to the less evident but to come within the class there must be somewhere a ..."
7. The Neighbor: The Natural History of Human Contacts by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1904)
"Many like examples could be cited to show that the commonest misuse of the reason
and the imagination is to devise notions to support an irrational motive ..."
8. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... and the imagination is to support an irrational motive which is strong enough
to be mastering, yet is felt to need explanation " (The Neighbor, p. ..."
9. Comte, Mill, and Spencer: An Outline of Philosophy by John Watson (1895)
"... the rational motive of self-realization by identification with others for the
irrational motive of self-realization by separation from others. ..."
10. An Outline of Philosophy: With Notes, Historical and Critical by John Watson (1898)
"... the rational motive of self-realization by identification with others for the
irrational motive of self-realization by separation from others. ..."
11. Theological Institutes: Or, A View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and by Richard Watson (1851)
"... and conduct; and if any necessity bind the irrational motive upon the will,
it is either the result of bad voluntary habit, for which we are accountable ..."
12. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1899)
"There are all degrees of imperfection and irrational motive from the pronounced
to the less evident but to come within the class there must be somewhere a ..."
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