RATIONALISM


Meaning of RATIONALISM in English

noun

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A believer might move from one form of piety to another, embracing mysticism and rationalism at the same time.

But cognitive theories' rationalism is male-identified, drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature of logical, coherent thought.

Eventually that sense of the truth was rejected even by some philosophers who had initally accepted scientific rationalism with great enthusiasm.

In rejecting the reductionism of rationalism , the counterculture was so deeply anti-intellectual that it forfeited access to its own history.

It spread through the body and achieved chemically and pharmacologically what rationalism and the Protestant ethic sought to fulfill spiritually and ideologically.

The errors of constructivist rationalism stem from the belief that reason alone enables human beings to construct society anew.

Without understanding this philosophical background it is difficult to appreciate the distinctiveness of Oakeshott's critique of rationalism .

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