rationalism

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.