Sentence:  Although some <WSD>nonrational</WSD> elements may be inconsistent with legal ideals, others—emotions and intuitions of certain types, imagination, judgment, rhetorical persuasiveness (considered below)—are fully consistent with those ideals. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.