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

He urged Bhogal to schedule group video calls to discuss rationalism, Stoicism and effective altruism.

From Los Angeles Times

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

Oakeshott was horrified by this, and was also disturbed by the postwar British welfare state; this was the impetus for his denunciation of political rationalism.

From Salon

But it's not an incident caused by just one crazy person, but it happened because of social factors — an extreme rationalism that we have in society.

From Salon