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rationalist::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | positivist |
| Type of | nonreligious person |
| Has types | logical positivist |
| Derivation | rationalism |
rationalist:: | Spocien Dictionary
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rationalist philosophy.
Examples of rationalist
rationalist
The neuroscientist and rationalist has made his name attacking religious faith.
From the newsweek.com
I am now happily married to a rationalist, and have been for the past 30 years.
From the guardian.co.uk
The grid represents a rationalist, reductionist solution to a multifaceted issue.
From the en.wikipedia.org
This is all a long way from old Ben Franklin, that arch-rationalist, and his kite.
From the economist.com
If Modernism was rationalist and functional, Art Deco was more about surface.
From the independent.co.uk
Many Hungarian Unitarians embrace the principles of rationalist Unitarianism.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Personally, I think empiricist-rationalist is better than AP in that context.
From the en.wikipedia.org
These rationalist ideas provided the basis for the principles of Art Nouveau.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Balancing Zippy's non-sequiturs falls to Griffy, the high-collared ultra-rationalist.
From the time.com
- Of or relating to or characteristic of rationalism; "rationalist philosophy"
- Positivist: someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes
- (rationalism) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
- (rationalism) the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth
- (rationalism) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct
- In epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" (Lacey 286). In more technical terms it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive" (Bourke 263). ...
- (Rationalism (architecture)) The intellectual principles of Rationalism are based on architectural theory. Vitruvius had already established in his work De Architectura that architecture is a science that can be comprehended rationally. ...
- (Rationalism (theology)) Neology, the name given to the rationalist theology of Germany or the rationalisation of the Christian religion. It was preceded by slightly less radical Wolffism.
- (rationalism) the philosophical position that true knowledge comes through correct reasoning. (5)
