rationalismra‧tion‧al‧is‧m /ˈræʃənəlɪzəm/ AWL noun [uncountable] - 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.
nounrationality ≠ irrationalityrationalerationalismrationalistrationalizationadjectiverational ≠ irrationalrationalistverbrationalizeadverbrationally ≠ irrationally