Why should an irrational method work when rational methods were all so rotten?

It wasn't just another interesting idea to be tested by existing rational methods.

It was a modification of the existing rational methods themselves.

How could a race hope to advance toward rational methods and effective control of its environment if its foundations are built on such unreason?

He/she may respond with rational problem-solving methods to overcome the barrier.

Behavioral therapy - in which a person systematically asks his own mind if the doubt has any real basis - uses rational, Socratic methods.

The Good Design esthetic was based on industrial production and its rational, standardized methods of operation.

The virtues of the use of rational methods are as follows:

The problem with naive comparisons like this is that they're an appeal to emotion rather that to any rational method of decision making.

Maillart decided to abandon standard methods in order to create "the more rational and more beautiful European method of building".