单词 | rationalist |
释义 | rationalist/ˈraʃ(ə)n(ə)lɪst![]() noun 1A person who bases their opinions and actions on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response: the managers are rationalists who find it hard to understand why anyone should get worked up about the closure of their local hospital a rationalist with a boyish enthusiasm for modern science...
1.1 Philosophy A person who believes that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge: like other rationalists, he valorizes the mind over the body 1.2 Theology A person who considers reason to be the ultimate authority in religion: the dispassionate sensibility of Protestant rationalists adjective 1Based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response: a rationalist approach to the supernatural 1.1 Philosophy Relating to the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge: Harvard College had become a seat of rationalist philosophy 1.2 Theology Relating to the practice of treating reason as the ultimate authority in religion: Toland’s unrelentingly rationalist approach to theology went well beyond anything Locke advocated Derivativesrationalistic![]()
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