The work punctured the widely held notion that scientific change was a strictly rational process.

"Consumers make decisions to purchase discretionary products largely based on emotion because there is no strictly rational reason for buying something you don't need," she writes.

It is not easy to see that these two exploits, judged from a strictly rational standpoint, are any saner than the acts above suggested.

In contrast with the irrationality of the Surrealists, Escher's context is strictly rational; every illusion that is created is the result of a totally reasoned construction.

"In a strictly rational world, plaintiffs' counsel would always press for the limit of what the defense would pay," the Court wrote.

Economists assume, for their purposes, a uniquely coldblooded fellow called economic man, whose decisions to buy or sell are made on a strictly rational calculus of private gain.

If you're out in the water in a pleasure craft and you see those buildings on fire, in a strictly rational sense, you should head to New Jersey.

In strictly rational terms, the decision to burn them seems sound.

But if R 0, the costs outweigh the benefits and a strictly rational individual would not be expected to vote.

Yet the work echoes a tradition in which numbers and geometry carry connotations other than the strictly rational and quantitative values they hold in the modern West.