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Rationalism

noun
1.
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience.
2.
The theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth.
3.
The doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct.  Synonym: freethinking.





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"Rationalism" Quotes from Famous Books



... finds himself indifferent on many points (on the reality of witchcraft, for instance) concerning which Browne's more timid, personally grounded faith might indulge no scepticism, forced himself, nevertheless, to detect a vein of rationalism in a book which on the whole much attracted him, and hastily put forth his "animadversions" upon it. Browne, with all his distaste for controversy, thus found himself committed to a dispute, and his reply came with the correct edition of the ...
— Appreciations, with an Essay on Style • Walter Horatio Pater


Words linked to "Rationalism" :   philosophical doctrine, philosophical system, philosophical theory, school of thought, doctrine, free thought, rationalist, philosophy, freethinking, ism, rationalistic, theological doctrine, deism


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