Both Uses of
rationalism
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He was seeing the final contradiction, the grotesque absurdity at the end of the irrationalists' game: the men in Washington had hoped to hold him by prompting these three to try for the role of hostages.†
Chpt 3.6
- They, the impotent mystics, struggling to escape the responsibility of reason, had known that he, the rationalist, had undertaken to serve their whims.†
Chpt 3.6 *
Definition:
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(rationalism as in: rationalism v. empiricism) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by reason rather than by experience