what is the difference between a rational and irrational thinker?

Answer 1

One that thinks like me is rational, one that doesn't is not.

Answer 2

A rational thinker thinks. An irrational thinker does not.

Answer 3

the answer is simple. look at the word parts to help you figure it out.

a rational thinker is someone who thinks logically and realistically.

an irrational thinker is the exact opposite. someone who thinks foolishly and illogically.

Answer 4

thinking itself is rational. there no such think that rational thinker and irrational thinker

Answer 5

Analogy.

Rational is to understand that fire is likely HOT, without experiencing it.

Irrational is to deny FIRE is HOT and yet have to prove it to the self, by (UM, sticking a hand into a fire?)

Steven Wolf

Answer 6

rational thinker will seek a reasonable, logical explanation.
irrational thinker will not constrict themselves as much to those boundaries.

Answer 7

http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/r/a.htm#rationalism

Most people take rational thought or action as something that does not contradict the understanding, whatever the understanding may be. In my mind irrational action is one that contradicts itself, such as self sacrifice as a contradiction for self preservation. In some rationalist philosophies self sacrifice is not a self contradiction as others are for self as understood through a complex of concepts involving relations to and of past, present and future for the selfs universal identity, humanity or 'the people'.

In more complex peculiar individual contexts, irrational logic or action is found it various species of self contradiction, a variety of mental illness's such schizophrenia and extreme paranoia, but much of it is purely rationalist and has no empiricism and therefor is constituted with nothing more than beliefs of one individual having as its subject the actions of an other.

The Judgment is negative, the Will is positive.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/sl_iii.htm#SL34n

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/li_terms.htm

Answer 8

rational is like something that is reasonable or makes since irrational is something that is crazy or isn't resonble i guess

Answer 9

One word: wisdom.

Answer 10

the amount of alcohol they've had to drink