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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...
  • The family members are down to earth rationalists confronting everyday contingencies.
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

Derivatives

rationalistic

/raʃ(ə)n(ə)ˈlɪstɪk / adjective ...
  • Her husband is a cold, rationalistic technocrat.

rationalistically

/raʃ(ə)n(ə)ˈlɪstɪk(ə)li/ adverb

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