How To Use Rationalist In A Sentence

Jefferson famously excised all miracles from his copy of the King James Bible; as a rationalist and a deist, he considered such stories to be needless embellishments.
Both allowed the very young a certain exemption from the adult rules of religious belief and behavior; spiritually speaking, for rationalist Unitarians and evangelicals, children were a different order of moral being than adults.
While there is no question that his verbiage is infuriating at times, I think it's a mistake to see him as nothing but an anarchic, anti-rationalist nihilist.
Instead, a rationalistic view of reality prevails over an affectivity which is weak and ultimately unpersuasive. High school anthology: "The Cold Equations"
That inability to distinguish between free enquiry and deliberate insult reminds me of those who wielded the blasphemy laws which were used to persecute freethinkers and rationalists in the middle ages.

Veblen was not only a famous economist and sociologist in the 20th century but also a rationalistic representative in the philosophical genres of higher education.
Such an irrationalist epidemic infecting religion would turn it from a worship of truth to a worship of emotion and a cultivation of certain emotional states... Knowledge Spillovers from Enterpreneurship - The Austrian Economists
His coolly rationalist approach to religion was complemented by an excitable temperament and a taste for the picaresque.
He was a strong opponent of the rationalistic tendencies which had infected some dialecticians of his times, and often warned his pupils against such as extol their dialectics above the teachings of the Church and the testimony of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
On a different plane, Gramsci himself had not been spared the influence of some irrationalist trends.
Empiricists like Locke and rationalists like Newton lacked the rich ontology of Thomas Aquinas and the medieval schoolmen.
The rationalist opposition replaced the murder of the imam with the triumph of reason as the barrier against despotism.
Before the discussion continues, a major limitation of the concept, that has often been noted before, must be reported: The definition assumes a clear distinction between goals and means, itself a rationalistic distinction. THE MORAL DIMENSION
When I just go ahead and speak my mind, inevitably it comes out sounding like I am an insensitive, unsympathetic rationalist.
When Seti Ashgad, leader of the anti-Theran Rationalist Party contacted Chief of State Leia Organa Solo for diplomatic relations, Callista attempted to warn Leia to stay away from the world.
The main reason the trade unionists failed in the U.K. was probably because their culture, one of an absolute, rationalist belief in egalitarianism, jibbed so badly with British culture it was bound to invoke the greatest antagonisms eventually. Matthew Yglesias » EFCA in International Comparison
operationalist doctrine
Rereading now the essays I have written for this and other papers in the Sixties, I am struck by the activistic, almost rationalistic, mood that permeates them. Reflections on the End of the Republic
For the congresswoman to attempt to hijack the noble, rationalist legacy of Britain’s greatest 20th-century peacetime premier for her own campaign is regurgitatively infuriating.
CARSON (turning to the thoroughly nettled KEITH): Now, Keith, and this is very important, are you a rationalist? LewRockwell.com
This first modern paradigm is an abstract rationalist universalism that conflates universality with Eurocentrism and developmental modernism.
What the rationalist calls nonentity is the substrate and locus of all ideas, having the obstinate reality of matter, the crushing irrationality of existence itself; and one who attempts to override it becomes to that extent an irrelevant rhapsodist, dealing with thin after-images of being. The Life of Reason
This supposed "hardness" -- I detest these vague phrases, but one knows what is meant -- of the Rationalist temper is one of the strangest myths the clergy have invented. The War and the Churches
And ‘Periyar’ gave more than the literal meaning of an ‘old man’: a man of wisdom and rationalist thinking who dwarfed pigmies.
He is the father of those antirationalist thinkers for whom the seamless whole of reality in its unanalyzable flow is misrepresented by the static, spatial metaphors of mathematics and the natural sciences. THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT
I do, however, recognise my own utterly antidoxic nature as so unquestionably Libran that I have to be skeptical about that rationalist dogma, and try and explain this evidence rather than blithely ignore it. Critique From HereNow
The birthright of Christian education was not stolen by skeptics and rationalists.
What is known as the Haskalah movement represents the application of the rationalistic method to the spiritual problems of The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
This latter group was am minstay of rationalistic thought.
Instead of a rationalist rectilinearity, he enriched the Case House with oblique lines and diagonals, a trademark of his mentors'approaches to composition. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Nevertheless, not withstanding the adoption of an analytical method, the dominant tradition is both anti-rationalist and anti-formalist in conception.
It is eminently a product of what I have ventured to call the rationalistic temper. Pragmatism
The Jewish philosophy is different both from rationalist philosophy of West and the intuitionism of ancient China.
I plead guilty to a rational, not "rationalistic," approach to problems. Fail-Safe, &c.
Those who said that these were real because they were useful were instrumentalists, while those who said they were real to the extent that they correlated with measurements were operationalists.
Lessing, Wieland, Herder, Goethe, and Schiller (Wil - helm Münch, “Über den Begriff des Klassikers” in Zum deutschen Kultur - und Bildungsleben, Berlin [1912]), an extremely heterogeneous group of which Klopstock today would appear to belong to what is usually called sentimentalism; Lessing, in spite of his polemics against the practices of French tragedy, is a ration - alistic classicist who worshipped Aristotle; Wieland is rather a man of the Enlightenment whose art strikes us often as rococo; Herder would seem an irrationalistic preromantic. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
This is a fairly plausible rationalist explanation of how magic can work.
But in this column I'd like to look at some websites concerned with ethics as a subject of interest to rationalists and freethinkers, rather than as an ‘issue’ for Internet users.
He adopted a constructivist interpretation of mathematics which bordered upon formalism, and regarded this as the natural complement to his operationalist philosophy in physics.
Church upon points connected with their heresies, which they elaborated frequently upon rationalistic lines; and the pantheists and others of the schools criticized and syllogized revelation away in true free-thought style. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
One does not have to be an atheist to be a rationalist, empiricist or skeptic.
The inferior clergy as a body were far nearer in character to Trulliber than to Dr. Primrose; coarse, sordid, neglectful of their duties, shamelessly addicted to sinecurism and pluralities, fanatics in their Toryism and in attachment to their corporate privileges, cold, rationalistic, and almost heathen in their preachings, if they preached at all. The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
Far from being a total innovation, historical Kabbalah represented an ongoing effort to systematize existing elements of Jewish theurgy, myth, and mysticism into a full-fledged response to the rationalistic challenge. David Shasha: Dangerous Mystic Motifs in Judaism
His religious faith, which had always been a rationalistic, brittle thing, simply broke apart.
The monks opposed Abelard and convinced the Church to condemn him - twice - and the papacy periodically fulminated against the rationalist discourse carried out in [his university] classrooms.
The persecuted Arians thought of themselves as making a last brave stand against irrationalist mystery-mongers (such as Augustine) and their rigid orthodoxies.
Rationalists have over the centuries and under different nomenclatures given lead to the struggle for civilisation.
Contrary to the almost mechanistic, rationalist view of human nature underpinning the neo-liberal, free-market vision, Brooks notes Taleb's more pessimistic, more conservative view: He subscribes to what he calls the tragic vision of humankind, which 'believes in the existence of inherent limitations and flaws in the way we think and act and requires an acknowledgement of this fact as a basis for any individual and collective action.' Archive 2008-10-01
Descartes, and Leibniz gave this tradition a rationalist twist centered on the powers of human reason; it became the project of a universal framework of exact categories and ideas, a mathesis universalis. The Unity of Science
Veblen was not only a famous economist and sociologist but also a rationalistic representative in the philosophical genres of higher education.
Nevertheless, not withstanding the adoption of an analytical method, the dominant tradition is both anti-rationalist and anti-formalist in conception.
In that case the rationalist will usually also be in favor of what is called free-will, and the empiricist will be a fatalist -- Pragmatism
His religious faith, which had always been a rationalistic, brittle thing, simply broke apart.
Both shared an interest in resisting the amoral libertarianism of bohemians and rationalists.
The report identified social justice and economic-rationalist utilitarianism as the major competing educational philosophies or ideologies.
Christianity is now mild and rationalistic, ignoring the fact that all its so-called mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians. The Necessity of Atheism
Bottom-up works better than anything when we're guessing or when accurate/expert measurements cannot be made, but when such measurements can be made top-down is the more rational option and bottom-up simply becomes irrationalist, almost superstitious, populism. Bottom Up Democracy at PDA, Top-Down at DNC
And they can then jump on it and hold it up as a prime example of how all those fags and feminazis and blacks, all those radicals and activists and liberals, are all full of patently whacky ideas and bound into an irrationalist groupthink. More on Cultural Appropriation
The architecture is clearly rationalist and wants to make a dialogue with the '900 italian architecture.
By its very nature, simply showing a multicultural, tolerant future, where open-minded rationalists are on a mission of scientific and cultural exploration, and poverty, disease, and warfare are considered backwards, is a pretty damn important meme, and I'm glad its still out there and broadcasting loud and clear. Fu Manchu Lou Review
Nevertheless, by definition, you can't transform irrationalists.
Rationalists see skepticism as something which must be refuted on every count in order to establish a sure footing for absolutely certain knowledge.
The fact that divination works at all is a puzzler for a rationalist materialist model of the world.
The persecuted Arians thought of themselves as making a last brave stand against irrationalist mystery-mongers (such as Augustine) and their rigid orthodoxies.
I hope you will not visit the very learned Herr Nicolai, the insipid prosaist, the puffed-up rationalist, who believes that his knowledge permits him to penetrate every thing, and who is a veritable ass. Old Fritz and the New Era
It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. Harvard University Commencement Address (A World Split Apart)
Descartes also claimed that the new rationalist methodology would bring human mastery over nature and a new age of human well-being.
They are scientific rationalists, and thus for Americans already graceless and uncharismatic.
I mean, there's a sort of irrationalist fiction that was published as sf in the past and is generally published as fantasy now, in which the approach to the strange events is a distinct style of anti-rationalisation. The Great Debate
It is not and should never be, as has happened with the irrationalist, pseudo-scientific, anti-metaphysical, socialist left who control all modes of political thought in intellectual ‘debate’ these days, a method of creating a new God who actively attempts to snuff out divergent and opposed opinion. Archive 2009-06-01
You used to call me a rationalist, and I will tell you, this is a rational trust. COUP D'ETAT
From the process of hybridisation, the interaction of Romantic, Rationalist and Modernist aesthetics in the diverse field of strange fiction we call "fantasy". More Aesthetics
Baldwin argues that Nordau never fit together the pieces of his thinking—his rationalistic liberalism and his Volkish Zionism. Bloodlust
Berlin does concede that Hamann was not a "heaven-storming" irrationalist, but he does not specify how his "irrationalism" differs from that of the heaven-stormers. 'The Magus of the North'
Only a devout rationalist could see the image of the Book of Gospels on the coffin, its pages riffled by unseen fingers - okay, the wind - and not find it eerie.
He was in the vanguard of the generation of postwar intellectuals who sought to steer the region toward a rationalist secular liberalism.
Chen was a rationalist and an individualist.
In later life he was closely associated with propaganda for the Co-operative movement, and advocated co-partnership schemes, supported Gladstonian Liberalism, and in 1899 was first chairman of the Rationalist Press Association.
The rationalist approach in reflective realism, at its extreme, renders it maeiutic fiction. Archive 2009-07-01
The big beasts of medical ethics have been locking horns, the rationalists against the religious as usual.
His approach was positivist and rationalist and his general objective was to lay down a theory of social evolution.
But on the basis of this presupposition it offers at the same time a considerably antirationalist model of religion, a modern "mystic": The Absolute is not to be believed, but to be experienced. Close your mouth, no barking like a dog!
I chose art over the positivist-rationalist life of an engineer that my family intended for me.
These are contrasted with ideas that are merely ‘arbitrary, rationalistic, or willed’, based on extemporary polemics.
Her description of economic rationalism is primarily based on its enemies' assumptions, not on economic rationalists' actual views.
We need to adopt a scientific approach to things because the hour is getting very late to be able to indulge in having key decisions made by religious people; by irrationalist by those who will steer the ship by faith and not by a compass but by the equal of reading the entrails of a chicken. Blog De Ganz | Archive | February
Taking fallibilism seriously heads off the charge that contextualism encourages strongly anti-rationalist positions such as relativism.
As a Jew, a liberal, a humanist, an internationalist, he attracted the enmity of rationalistanti - semites.
But Chomsky is, for all his faults, a vigorous defender of the Enlightenment tradition, and far from an irrationalist.
This suffices to qualify stress as a permissible concept from the operationalist standpoint.
Rationalists do not regard moralizing as a legitimate function of government.
And the heroes of these films are nearly always pragmatists, the middle ground between the emotionalists and cold rationalists around them.
The family members are down to earth rationalists confronting everyday contingencies.
I'm not sure whether the old irrationalist would have welcomed this himself, or not. June 21st, 2009
The movement of English thought known as deism was a distinct forerunner of the rationalist movement, within the particular area of the discussion of religion. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
It became the basis for political and social doctrine and could be called rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the pro-claimed and practiced autonomy of man from any higher force above him. Open Democracy News Analysis - Comments
Kant demolished the rationalistic arguments of Anselm, Descartes, and others, for the existence of God.
Yet it did not enter into the composition of his religious faith, and this shows that his religious faith, though entirely free from suspicion of insincerity or ostentatious assumption, was like deism in so many cases, whether rationalistic or emotional, a kind of gratuitously adopted superfluity, not the satisfaction of a profound inner craving and resistless spiritual necessity. Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2)
It became the basis for government and social science and could be defined as rationalistic humanism or humanistic autonomy: the proclaimed and enforced autonomy of the individual from any higher force above him. Archive 2008-08-01
Nevertheless, not withstanding the adoption of an analytical method, the dominant tradition is both anti-rationalist and anti-formalist in conception.
I was a senior bureaucrat in the Victorian State public service before falling victim of the economic rationalist rightsizing fad that flourished in response to the oil induced recession of 1991.
In that case all that is necessary to ensure immunity for the irrationalist agents is that they should put forward their propaganda under the pretence that it is itself a special science, which therefore other scientists will understand that they must not criticise'. Knowledge Spillovers from Enterpreneurship - The Austrian Economists
For one, it corrects the standard portrait of Socinians as rationalists, showing them instead to be biblicists of a sort.
The ‘logic’ offered, which would have pleased the irrationalists to no end, goes something like this.
Men living estranged from God easily cast aside God's morals and principles, exchanging them for a blind belief in rationalistic expediency. The Spirit of '67
The Italian exponents of lyrical and geometric abstraction were based in Milan and Como, and often worked together with Rationalist architects.
Realist and rationalist ideas are also embedded in international organization.
The Rationalist views the mind as a finely tempered, neutral instrument and never doubts the authority and power of reason.
Carlyle, Schopenhauer, and other antirationalist thinkers of the nineteenth century, culminating in THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT
Wolff cannot be termed a Rationalist in the common acceptation of the term, though his doctrines contributed to the growth of neological thinking. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
One corollary of war-state dirigisme - especially in the United States - is that centrist left parties will re-badge themselves as the new economic rationalists.
This is when the rationalist comes to accept the spiritualist's position.
Marx exceeds rationalistic metaphysics and Political Economy and realizes the ontological transform of production.
But while Hobbes was a rationalist, Machiavelli was an historicist.
rationalist philosophy
The rationalist comedian is at his brainiest with this tour. Times, Sunday Times
Today's 'icon' buildings, for instance, invariably funny-shaped, are essentially antirationalist things that make no sense except as provocations. Times, Sunday Times
For every rationalist metaphysician, from Plato to the last disciples of Hegel or Marx, this abandonment of of the notion of a final harmony in which all riddles are solved, all contraditions reconciled, is a piece of crude empiricism, abdication before brute facts, intolerable bankruptcy of reason before things as they are, failure to explain and to justify, to reduce everything to a system, which 'reason' indignantly rejects. Grammarian Peeves
Certainly I see this and BSG as data points in the antirationalist trend that's been growing since the turn of the century (and in some ways before that). FlickFilosopher.com
Veblen was not only a famous economist and sociologist in the 20th century but also a rationalistic representative in the philosophical genres of higher education.
Many other contemporaries, often in violent disagree - ment with Maurras and his group, also embraced what they called classicism: Julien Benda, a violent anti - romantic polemicist, highly rationalistic in outlook, recommended classicism. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
The rationalist opposition replaced the murder of the imam with the triumph of reason as the barrier against despotism.
In our scientific age with its rationalistic world view, the idea of a person being raised form the dead sees laughable.
Nevertheless, not withstanding the adoption of an analytical method, the dominant tradition is both anti-rationalist and anti-formalist in conception.
His idea of moral education, while not entirely neglectful of habit, feeling, and physical well-being, is almost a paradigm of a rationalistic approach, with an emphasis on maxims, rules, and above all cultivation of the mind.
With one other, I was commissioned to conduct him from Melbourne's splendid old Menzies Hotel to a banquet tendered in his honour by the Victorian Rationalist Society.
While the outcome of the doctrine of the antinomy is the destruction of the dogmatic metaphysics of both the rationalistic and naturalistic schools, in the context of Kant's own philosophy the antinomy also has an important constructive function. ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON
Hamann was brought up as a Pietist, a member of the most introspective and self-absorbed of all the Lutheran sects, intent upon the direct com - munion of the individual soul with God, bitterly antirationalist, liable to emotional excess, preoccupied with the stern demands of moral obligation and the needs for severe self-discipline. THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT
Nevertheless, not withstanding the adoption of an analytical method, the dominant tradition is both anti-rationalist and anti-formalist in conception.
But a few years before the ascendancy of such interpretations, a new naturistic-rationalistic evalua - tion of mythology came suddenly into prominence. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Veblen was not only a famous economist and sociologist but also a rationalistic representative in the philosophical genres of higher education.
Nevertheless, not withstanding the adoption of an analytical method, the dominant tradition is both anti-rationalist and anti-formalist in conception.
One was a great rationalist, an apostle of individual liberty, an enemy of dogma and a believer in empiricism as the source of all knowledge; the other was a Mexican nun who lived her entire life in the closed, authoritarian society that was colonial empire of New Spain. The remarkable life of Juana Inés de la Cruz (1651–1695)
He was a person of genius and contradiction - at once a rationalist committed to toleration, openness, and the pursuit of happiness and a militaristic power broker who prospered while crushing others under foot.
Modern champions of irrationalist Daoism, of course, would not be disturbed by this inconsistency, of course, since, they allege, that Daoists refuse to think logically. Taoism
Rationalism has a long history in philosophy, Plato ( c. 427 - 347 BC ) was a rationalist.
Welhaven endured the rationalist and republican rhetoric of Wergeland as long as he could, although with growing exasperation, until the rhapsodical author of Henrik Ibsen
These, representing a powerful State, are highly interventionist, concerned with efficiency and productivity, and rationalists to the core.
The Greens and Democrats have become two variants of the economic irrationalist left.
As a rationalist, he believed that the only path to true knowledge was through logic.
He next went with Dollinger to Rome, where he met Italian rationalists and high ecclesiastics.
Given the aspect of rationalist study entailed in reflective realism, the subset of “literary” fiction described above might be described as academic fiction. On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction

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