rationalism
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Rationalism, or the disposition to try everything by reason and reject everything we cannot understand, is not a native plant in the South.”
From Washington Post • Sep. 19, 2015
Rationalism is the idea that humans are capable of using their faculty of reason to gain knowledge.
From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014
"Rationalism proves inadequate in any period of upheaval," he wrote.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2014
What is more, there is no Rationalism so rationalistic as Catholic Rationalism.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neo-Christian, nē-ō-kris′tyan, adj. and n. of or pertaining to so-called Neo-Christianity, which merely means old Rationalism.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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Chapter 22: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
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