rationalism
rationalism
Definition
ra·tion·al·ism (ras̸h′ən əl iz′əm)
ra′·tion·al·ist noun, adjective
ra′·tion·al·is′·tic adjective
ra′·tion·al·is′·ti·cally adverb
rationalism
Synonyms
rationalism
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- period: You can see the last windows, the pure rationalism of the late Perpendicular period, right at the top in the bell-stage.
- century: It had its roots in the rationalism of the 18th Century and the free thought movement of the 19th Century.
Converse of object
- reject: In the Grammar, Newman makes his case for a radically new understanding of human reason, rejecting both Cartesian rationalism and Lockean empiricism.
- apply: Like Dawkins, Randi is an inspiration to everyone who searches for truth and applies rationalism to solving life's mysteries.
- promote: Did it promote rationalism rather than faith seeking understanding?
- include: Ultimately she did not succeed in broadening definitions of femininity to include rationalism and mathematical accomplishment.
- mean: Modeling means rationalism: your system is as logically tight as any syllogism.
Preposition: in
- politics: Oakeshott, M. ( 1948 ), 'The tower of Babel ' , reprinted in Rationalism in Politics.
- area: But to recognize this is not to deny the importance of constructive rationalism in limited areas.
Adjective modifier
- constructive: Natural languages are not designed; they are the products mainly of evolutionary rather than constructive rationalism.
- evolutionary: But I suspect that my next example of evolutionary rationalism - modern science - may be much more contentious.
- scientific: For a long time it had seemed that scientific rationalism would take the lead.
- critical: It is keener with critical rationalism, perhaps, rather than unique to it.
- pure: Of course, the problem with pure rationalism is that finding a secure starting point from which to develop our beliefs is difficult.
- ethical: However, it does not ward off the threat to ethical rationalism.
Noun used with modifier
- enlightenment: The answer seemed to be that it was the logic of Enlightenment rationalism itself that gave rise to such barbarism.
- century: In his design Baskerville clearly expressed the aesthetical ideas of neoclassicism and 18th century rationalism.
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