Sample Sentences forrationalism (auto-selected)
rationalism as in: rationalism v. empiricism
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Immanuel Kant attempted to integrate rationalism and empiricism.rationalism = the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by reason rather than by experience
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Though a proponent of rationalism, Leibniz noted that "we are all mere Empirics in three fourths of our actions."
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This unshakable faith in human reason is called rationalism.† (source)
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I feared for you, dear blessed Ork—I feared your bloodless rationalism.† (source)
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So do I. There was a moment's silence, such as often follows the triumph of rationalism.† (source)
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I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: "I say, gentleman, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!"† (source)
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We obtained a sufficient foundation for it by throwing into the slough some editions of books of morality, volumes of French philosophy and German rationalism; tracts, sermons, and essays of modern clergymen; extracts from Plato, Confucius, and various Hindoo sages together with a few ingenious commentaries upon texts of Scripture,—all of which by some scientific process, have been converted into a mass like granite.† (source)
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They were all typical rationalists, convinced that reason was the only path to knowledge.† (source)
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But then it was Jose Arcadio Buendia who took the lead and tried to break down the priest's faith with rationalist tricks.† (source)
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It could only be a question of time before irrationalism and ignorance would give way to an 'enlightened' humanity.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irrationalism means not and reverses the meaning of rationalism. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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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.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "ir-" in irrationalists means not and reverses the meaning of rationalists. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "R" as seen in words like irrational, irregular, and irresistible.
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In trying to produce the sensuous effects of opera, the fashionable drama has become so flaccid in its sentimentality, and the intellect of its frequenters so atrophied by disuse, that the reintroduction of problem, with its remorseless logic and iron framework of fact, inevitably produces at first an overwhelming impression of coldness and inhuman rationalism.† (source)
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We agreed that they had one important thing in common, namely, that they were both rationalists.† (source)
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They, the impotent mystics, struggling to escape the responsibility of reason, had known that he, the rationalist, had undertaken to serve their whims.† (source)
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Like every aspect of Plato's philosophy, his political philosophy is characterized by rationalism.† (source)
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Remember that the rationalists believed that the basis for all human knowledge lay in the mind.† (source)
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