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Definition of Rationalizer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rationalizer
Literary usage of Rationalizer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theism by Borden Parker Bowne (1902)
"This result will not at once commend itself to the rationalizer, ... The religious
rationalizer will see in it an attempt to found religion on something ..."
2. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... of creating paradoxes and impossibilities where none were suspected, is a
strange candidate for the honor of being a complete rationalizer of the world. ..."
3. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1896)
"... of creating paradoxes and impossibilities where none were suspected, is a
strange candidate for the honor of being a complete rationalizer of the world. ..."
4. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1896)
"... of creating paradoxes and impossibilities where none were suspected, is a
strange candidate for the honor of being a complete rationalizer of the world. ..."
5. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1896)
"... of creating paradoxes and impossibilities where none were suspected, is a
strange candidate for the honor of being a complete rationalizer of the world. ..."
6. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"The fault of the rationalizer lay in taking allegory beyond its proper action,
and applying it as a universal solvent to reduce dark stories to transparent ..."
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