2. Noun. Someone who rejects some aspect of rationalism. ¹
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Definition of Irrationalist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrationalist
Literary usage of Irrationalist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment by Joseph Mali, Robert Wokler (2003)
"To call this doctrine "irrationalist" is, however, to beg the question, and at
the very least ... Nothing less justifies the use of the irrationalist label. ..."
2. The Ground and Goal of Human Life by Charles Gray Shaw (1919)
"The particular method pursued by the irrationalist, far from consisting in the
assertion of groundless ideas, had to do with the complete transmutation of ..."
3. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1907)
"It was thus not as an irrationalist, but as a rationalist, that he made his appeal
to authority. His breach with Manichaeism and his gradual establishment ..."
4. Risk, Uncertainty and Profit by Frank Hyneman Knight (1921)
"In his views on this point the writer is very much of an irrationalist. In this
view the 1 This is intended as a statement of historic fact, not a dogma of ..."
5. Memories and Studies by William James (1911)
"Just listen for a moment to such irrationalist deliverances on his part as
these: - "Reason is neither the first nor the last ..."
6. A Short History of Freethought: Ancient and Modern by John Mackinnon Robertson (1899)
"As to Japan, Professor BH Chamberlain, a writer with irrationalist leanings,
pronounces that the Japanese "now bow down before the shrine of Herbert ..."
7. Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold by John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"... it is a good thing that a Liberal leader like Mr. Gladstone should be an
Irrationalist,3 is a stultification of his own earlier ethics of propaganda, ..."
8. Isaiah Berlin's Counter-Enlightenment by Joseph Mali, Robert Wokler (2003)
"To call this doctrine "irrationalist" is, however, to beg the question, and at
the very least ... Nothing less justifies the use of the irrationalist label. ..."
9. The Ground and Goal of Human Life by Charles Gray Shaw (1919)
"The particular method pursued by the irrationalist, far from consisting in the
assertion of groundless ideas, had to do with the complete transmutation of ..."
10. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1907)
"It was thus not as an irrationalist, but as a rationalist, that he made his appeal
to authority. His breach with Manichaeism and his gradual establishment ..."
11. Risk, Uncertainty and Profit by Frank Hyneman Knight (1921)
"In his views on this point the writer is very much of an irrationalist. In this
view the 1 This is intended as a statement of historic fact, not a dogma of ..."
12. Memories and Studies by William James (1911)
"Just listen for a moment to such irrationalist deliverances on his part as
these: - "Reason is neither the first nor the last ..."
13. A Short History of Freethought: Ancient and Modern by John Mackinnon Robertson (1899)
"As to Japan, Professor BH Chamberlain, a writer with irrationalist leanings,
pronounces that the Japanese "now bow down before the shrine of Herbert ..."
14. Modern Humanists: Sociological Studies of Carlyle, Mill, Emerson, Arnold by John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"... it is a good thing that a Liberal leader like Mr. Gladstone should be an
Irrationalist,3 is a stultification of his own earlier ethics of propaganda, ..."
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