Crossword-Solution: RATIONALISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rationalism | n. | The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation. |
| Rationalism | n. | The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism. |
Anagrams
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| RATIONALISM | anagram | MARTIANSOIL |
We have 56 clues for the answer “RATIONALISM”
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| reliance on reason as the basis for establishment of religious truth | 1 answer |
| type of philosophy | 2 answers |
| rationalise | 14 answers |
| tell the world | 37 answers |
| reasonableness | 40 answers |
| extenuation | 40 answers |
| soundness | 41 answers |
| physical fitness | 42 answers |
| Vindication | 43 answers |
| apologia | 43 answers |
| ratiocination | 43 answers |
| exoneration | 44 answers |
| repentance | 45 answers |
| sobriety | 46 answers |
| Rationale | 47 answers |
| substantiality | 47 answers |
| working out | 48 answers |
| heartiness | 48 answers |
| Reparation | 49 answers |
| rationalization | 50 answers |
| absolution | 51 answers |
| plea | 52 answers |
| solidity | 52 answers |
| Comprehension | 53 answers |
| Health | 53 answers |
| amends | 54 answers |
| wholeness | 55 answers |
| Intention | 55 answers |
| apology | 57 answers |
| exercising | 58 answers |
| Intellect | 59 answers |
| Rationalisation | 60 answers |
| defence | 60 answers |
| Common sense? | 60 answers |
| Logic | 60 answers |
| Sanity | 62 answers |
| Impetus | 64 answers |
| potency | 64 answers |
| Incentive | 65 answers |
| stability | 66 answers |
| Excuse | 66 answers |
| coherence | 68 answers |
| Efficacy | 68 answers |
| Explanation | 68 answers |
| Aim | 68 answers |
| Mind | 69 answers |
| Reasoning | 70 answers |
| Intensity | 72 answers |
| Fact | 78 answers |
| Tone-___ | 79 answers |
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Sentences with RATIONALISM (5)
Devout even to mysticism, an ardent ultramontane, an intolerant theocrat, he at first feels the double influence of the religious reaction and the literary theories which marked the beginning of this century, and falls back to the middle ages and Gregory VII.; then, suddenly becoming a progressive Christian and a democrat, he gradually leans towards rationalism, and finally falls into deism.
Solemnity, even in dissipation, is the order of the day; and they go to the devil with a perverse seriousness, a systematic rationalism of wickedness that would have surprised the simpler sinners of old.
Nehemiah Grew, Fellow of the College of Physicians and of the Royal Society of London, 1701; for Paley and the Bridgewater Treatises, see the usual editions; also Lange, History of Rationalism.
The worship at this temple is the most important of all the religious observances of the empire, and constitutes a most interesting remnant of the ancient monotheistic cultus which prevailed in China before the rationalism of Confucius and the polytheistic superstition of Buddhism predominated among the people.
Such grounds, for rationalism, must consist of four things: (1) definitely statable abstract principles; (2) definite facts of sensation; (3) definite hypotheses based on such facts; and (4) definite inferences logically drawn.
Quotes with RATIONALISM (3)
Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.
The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as the size of the emotion.
Religious people tend to encounter, among those who are not, a cemented certainty that belief in God is a crutch for the weak and the fearful... Now the belief in God may turn out at the last trump to be a mistake. Meantime, let us be quite clear, it is not merely the comfort of the simple--though it is that too, much to its glory--it is a formidable intellectual position with which most of the first-class minds of the human race, century in and century out, have concurred, e…