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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A believer might move from one form of piety to another, embracing mysticism and rationalism at the same time.
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But cognitive theories' rationalism is male-identified, drawing on dominant conceptions of the masculine nature of logical, coherent thought.
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Eventually that sense of the truth was rejected even by some philosophers who had initally accepted scientific rationalism with great enthusiasm.
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In rejecting the reductionism of rationalism , the counterculture was so deeply anti-intellectual that it forfeited access to its own history.
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It spread through the body and achieved chemically and pharmacologically what rationalism and the Protestant ethic sought to fulfill spiritually and ideologically.
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The errors of constructivist rationalism stem from the belief that reason alone enables human beings to construct society anew.
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Without understanding this philosophical background it is difficult to appreciate the distinctiveness of Oakeshott's critique of rationalism .