rationalism
Example Sentences
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Maybe I’m betraying my hopeless rationalism, but if I learned of the reality of time travel and “aerial spirits,” I’d be a little more preoccupied by it than Iris seems to be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
This “consumption downgrade” is not a move toward poverty but toward a militant form of rationalism.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026
Operating in a realm uncurtailed by everyday rationalism, Foreman and the Wooster Group are the experimental theater love-match we’ve been waiting for.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 2024
Prof Selove said: "This MA will allow people to re-examine the assumption that the West is the place of rationalism and science, while the rest of the world is a place of magic and superstition."
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023
There is a puzzle here, because the standard alternative to voluntarism is rationalism, and a rationalist would hold that the laws of nature, like the laws of mathematics, exist because they are necessary.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
