rationalist
理性主义者,理性派,理性者,理性主义
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- : the principle or habit of accepting reason as the supreme authority in matters of opinion, belief, or conduct.
- : Philosophy. the doctrine that reason alone is a source of knowledge and is independent of experience. the doctrine that all knowledge is expressible in self-evident propositions or their consequences.
- : Theology. the doctrine that human reason, unaided by divine revelation, is an adequate or the sole guide to all attainable religious truth.
- : Architecture. a design movement principally of the mid-19th century that emphasized the development of modern ornament integrated with structure and the decorative use of materials and textures rather than as added adornment.the doctrines and practices of this movement.Compare functionalism.
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From the outset, the idea that the rationalist, centrist, administration would pursue this path seemed fanciful.
Charles Darwin, the quintessential rationalist, tried to use only logic to make such decisions.
In this view, all it takes to dispel the gloom of religious sentiment in public life is a burst of happy rationalist sunlight.
In the early years of his London life, Mill had been only a rationalist.
Thus the ninth century saw a rationalist and a pantheist at the court of a Christian king.
It is one of the shallow illusions of the pseudo-rationalist school that the age of religious wars is passed for ever.
An answer perhaps could be offered of which the rationalist need not be ashamed.
Adrian is the fascinating dilettante, the philosophic doubter, a sort of romantic rationalist with a taste for art.