Rationalism

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Reliance on reason as the best guide for belief and action.
  • n. Philosophy The theory that the exercise of reason, rather than experience, authority, or spiritual revelation, provides the primary basis for knowledge.
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  • n. The theory that the basis of knowledge is reason, rather than experience or divine revelation.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.
  • n. The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In general, adherence to the supremacy of reason in matters of belief or conduct, in contradistinction to the submission of reason to authority; thinking for one's self.
  • n. In theology:
  • n. In general, the subjection of religious doctrine and Scriptural interpretation to the test of human reason or understanding; the rejection of dogmatic authority as against reason or conscience; rational latitude of religious thought or belief.
  • n. More specifically, as used with reference to the modern sehool or party of rationalists, that system of doctrine which, in its extreme form, denies the existence of any authoritative and supernatural revelation, and maintains that the human reason is of itself, and unaided by special divine inspiration, adequate to ascertain all attainable religious truth.
  • n. In metaphysics, the doctrine of a priori cognitions; the doctrine that knowledge is not all produced by the action of outward things upon the senses, but partly arises from the natural adaptation of the mind to think things that are true.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
  • n. the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct
  • n. the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth
    • Antonym
    traditionalism    irrationalism   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    philosophical doctrine    philosophical theory    ism    philosophy    school of thought   
    Cross Reference
    empiricism   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    intellectualism   
    Verb Stem
    ration   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    materialism    naturalism    scepticism    humanism    mysticism   
     
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