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    rationalism


    1. Rationalism emphasizes the cognitive component of knowing - thinking and calculation


    2. Rationalism has been used in two ways: (1) in a formal sense, it refers to systematic thinking


    3. Formal rationalism does not deny the role of sense-data in informing knowledge, but insists that


    4. rationalism refers to the cognitive processes of knowing (thinking)


    5. (empiricism) or thinking about facts (rationalism) - it is ideas we create to interpret our sense-data


    6. In the case of Rationalism, ask yourself “What concepts are included in the construct (theory,


    7. (rationalism) rather than from the evidence to concepts


    8. Rationalism is seen as reactive


    9. Perhaps the most famous koan is, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" When first hearing this the mind will try many attempts to solve it logically (Rationalism)


    10. cold rationalism that had created it

    11. of God they bear within themselves, and are troubled by the heavy anxiety of rationalism, which brings about a


    12. This is not a journey constructed with rationalism, not a step at the time in the sign of fatigue, prudence and harshness that pay the price for certainties and offers a shoulder to boredom and habits


    13. So very often there's spirits of rationalism and unbelief, rejection and all kinds of things sit around that person, but they can be set free, and they can develop the capacity of tuning in to spontaneity, to spontaneous ideas, to thoughts, to feelings, to impressions, and learning to recognise and identify and name them


    14. was a testament to his rationalism and beliefs


    15. Subsequent European history witnesses the fragmentation of that whole attitude, indeed its suppression and dispersal, under the baleful influences of rationalism and modernity from the seventeenth century onwards


    16. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, à 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, gentlemen, 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!" That again would not matter; but what is annoying is that he would be sure to find followers—such is the nature of man


    17. For the greatest effectiveness in this struggle of changes, the judicial path of ‘petitions, declarations and addresses,’ deserves every kind of sympathy from the side of historical rationalism as well as from the Christian point of view


    18. As adultery, usury, murder and suicide are among these little eccentricities, offset against superstition, religion and rationalism, the reader may take his choice of theories


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    Synonyms for "rationalism"

    freethinking rationalism common sense intellect logic intelligence judgement understanding discernment

    "rationalism" definitions

    (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience


    the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth


    the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct