Look up: Rationalism

1. rationalism
   [n] - the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth 2. [n] - the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience 3. [n] - the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct
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2. Rationalism
   Theory that reason is the foundation of certainty in knowledge, the attitude of mind which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason. A rationalist is beyond dogma, and believes nothing is beyond questioning, as nothing is absolutely certain to be true. However, some things are more reasonably li...
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3. rationalism
   In architecture, an Italian movement of the 1920s which grew out of a reaction to the extremes of Futurism. It was led by Gruppo 7, a loose association of young Italian architects, headed by...
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4. rationalism
   In theology, the belief that human reason rather than divine revelation is the correct means of ascertaining truth and regulating behaviour. In philosophy, rationalism takes the view that...
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5. Rationalism
   Ra'tion·al·ism (răsh'ŭn* a l*ĭz'm) noun [ Confer French rationalisme .] 1. (Theol.) The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or...
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6. rationalism
   1. The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation. ... 2. <philosophy> The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism. ....
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7. rationalism
   noun the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct
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8. Rationalism
   • (n.) The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism. • (n.) The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.
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9. Rationalism
   the philosophical view that regards reason as the chief source and test of knowledge. Holding that reality itself has an inherently logical ... [33 related articles]
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10. rationalism
    rationalism [Lat.,=belonging to reason], in philosophy, a theory that holds that reason alone, unaided by experience, can arrive at basic truth regarding the world. Associated with rationalism is the doctrine of innate ideas and the method of logically deducing truths about the world from “sel...
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11. Rationalism
    A method, or very broadly, a theory of philosophy, in which the criterion of truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive. Usually associated with an attempt to introduce mathematical methods into philosophy, as in Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza. -- V.J.B. The history of rationalism begins wi...
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12. rationalism
    In theology, the belief that human reason rather than divine revelation is the correct means of ascertaining truth and regulating behaviour. In philosophy, rationalism takes the view that self-evident a priori propositions (deduced by reason alone) are the sole basis of all knowledge. It is usually contrasted with empiricism, which argues that ...
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13. RATIONALISM
    The doctrine that genuine knowledge, or at least the most significant kind of knowledge, is not established by sense-experience, or at least not by sense-experience alone, and so is wholly or at least to a significant extent A PRIORI. Contrast EMPIRICISM
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14. Rationalism
    In epistemology and in its modern sense, `rationalism` is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" (Lacey 286). In more technical terms, it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive" ...
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15. Rationalism
    (architecture) , designed by Aldo Rossi, who is considered the founder of neo-rationalism The intellectual principles of `rationalism` are based on architectural theory. Vitruvius had already established in his work De Architectura that architecture is a science that can be comprehende...
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