[Closed] What's the exact opposite of reason?

Female

UKIP

Yup, jam bo's nailed it

ignorance?

Democracy

rhyme

religion

Rum 'n'

[i]UKIP [/i]

"That's a load of Farage and you know it!"

"Let's drop the Farage and be reasonable about this?"

Google seems to be working:

disbelief, ignorance, misinterpretation, mistake, misunderstanding, physicality, stupidity, unsoundness, block, discouragement, hindrance, insanity, charge, indictment

Imprudence?

Insanity

EDIT: pipped to the post

La déraison = unreason. It's in the title of a book.

Irrationality, perhaps.

Dogma.

Have you ever tried using facts to challenge the view of someone dogmatic? ie: your average anti-cycling driver, racist or believer in ever-rising house prices 🙂

Pandemonium

saltana

Dogma

Have you ever tried using facts to challenge the view of someone dogmatic? ie: your average anti-cycling driver, racist or believer in ever-rising house prices

Isn't that covered by "UKIP"? 😉

Dogma is very good! Feels good too. Irrationality is good too but doesn't flow. I like la déraison too though.

Accountancy ?

Faith

Reason = sense

Unreason = nonsense

hora. Listen to hora.

Bobbins

nedrapier - Member

hora. Listen to hora.

I like what you did there, but this is trying to come up for a name for a bike and I am [i]not[/i] riding Hora.

Religion +1

Has it got 26" wheels, straight steerer and a triple crankset?

I'd Listen to Bonkers. And ride a bike called Bonkers.

"Are you going to be on the SS tomorrow?"

"No, I'll be riding Bonkers"

Northwind - Member

nedrapier - Member
hora. Listen to hora.

I like what you did there, but this is trying to come up for a name for a bike and I am not riding Hora.

It has to be Dogma then, as up there.^^^^***

wwaswas - Member
UKIP

"That's a load of Farage and you know it!"

"Let's drop the Farage and be reasonable about this?"

That's good, I'm pinching that.

FACTS

Interesting how there's only one word for "reason", but a huge choice to describe it's opposite...

I like what you did there, but this is trying to come up for a name for a bike and I am not riding Hora.

Ah. You know Dogma's taken don't you? 🙂

I like FACTS, but you'll have letters landing on your desk.

Shame FACT(s) and Dogma have been taken, they're the best ones (apart from mine, obvs.) Hardly surprising, I wouldn't like to have to come up with bike names. I have some sympathy with the firms who just do numbers.

Not listening is the opposite. You could 'ignore all objectivity' or close your mind to reason, but unreasoned is as close as you'll get??
Dogma is still reasoned if not necessarily reasonable.

bit lengthy for the top tube though?

Faith.

There was Faith bikes back in the 90s/00s wasn't there? Jump frames?

If reason is your ability to make decisions based on logic/facts, with the absence of emotion, then the opposite of "listen to reason" might be "listen to you heart". You might not want something so fluffy puffy bunny on your top tube, so maybe "listen to your gut" if you want to channel your inner Chuck Norris.

Surely the opposite of reason is unreason? Not a word form I've ever come across, but you have reasonable and unreasonable.

Hora.

I think the struggle here is because the reason referred to in the OP is a noun, and opposites of nouns are a bit iffy. Sticking "un" in front of a word does not always the opposite make. One would imagine "unreason" is a word (haven't looked it up tbh)* but if someone said it, I'm not sure I'd recognise it as a proper antonym for reason.

*just looked up reason (as a noun) on dictionary.com and it doesn't list any antonyms for it.

One would imagine "unreason" is a word (haven't looked it up tbh)* but if someone said it, I'm not sure I'd recognise it as a proper antonym for reason.

You're just being unreasonable 😉

(As you say it doesn't work on a noun. You can be unreasonable but you can't have unreason)

You're just being unreasonable

Strange for me, but yes. 😛

It's alright, I'm naming my bike, I'm not starting a bike company, I think I will not get sued (I was dead pleased when I came up with "chromag" for my very old steel frame, got as far as making logo templates for it before I discovered it's a real brand)

Right so what this is... I own a very modified motorbike, which at one point had the most absurdly loud exhaust on it. So a mate named it Reason, because if you were within about 10 miles of knockhill that day, you had to listen to Reason.

So now I'm making a pushbike that makes no sense, except that I have all the bits. So it's a carrera XC hardtail with coil lyriks, mostly saint drivetrain, and about £750 worth of wheels and brakes. And ice spikers obviously. And when I leaned it against hte motorbike I just thought, "Unreason"

I'm so cool

TandemJeremy

You could try contradiction?

/reason

Reason as motive or reason as process?

Raison Pas

(Said with a shrug.)

nosa[i]y[/i]er

Reverse of reason (with added why)

To answer the OP - a single STWer. They start to have a skewered view on life manifested on forum posts.

What's the exact opposite of reason?

Illogical or irrational.

Everyone has a way of reasoning except no logical sense.

I win. 😀

For example, you lot should kiss my feet because my way or reasoning is that I step on you. The reasoning is good because you are perceived as way below the power of Dear Leader. But to you this does not make logical sense because I wear Clarks shoes so cannot kiss my feet. Hence, it is illogical but if I am bare footed then you will be able to kiss my feet. Logical? hhhhmmm ... from now on I shall be bare footed so you can kiss my feet wholeheartedly. 😆

Renton.

That's it decided, I'm calling it chewkw

when I leaned it against hte motorbike I just thought, "Unreason"

Then you have your answer, surely?

Northwind - Member

That's it decided, I'm calling it chewkw

You mean it's so illogical it's logical? Yes? 😆