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Definition of Rationalism

1. Noun. (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience.

2. Noun. The theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth.

3. Noun. The doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct.

Definition of Rationalism

1. n. The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.

Definition of Rationalism

1. Noun. (philosophy) The theory that the basis of knowledge is reason rather than experience, or divine revelation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Rationalism

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Medical Definition of Rationalism

1. 1. The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation. 2. The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism. Origin: Cf. F. Rationalisme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rationalism

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Literary usage of Rationalism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"rationalism connotes in philosophy the tendency of thought that lays special ... In theology the term rationalism was first applied to criticism of church ..."

2. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1900)
"THE first great characteristic of rationalism was its disposition to throw off the yoke of tradition. Nothing was to be accepted because it was old or had ..."

3. Protestant Thought Before Kant by Arthur Cushman McGiffert (1911)
"CHAPTER X rationalism THE Protestant Reformation was mediaeval, not modern, in its spirit and interest, and the Protestant scholasticism of the seventeenth ..."

4. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"To avoid misapprehension, however, rationalism several points should be emphasized. (1) By rationalism we may mean the attitude which makes reason instead ..."

5. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"To avoid misapprehension, however, rationalism several points should be emphasized. (1) By rationalism we may mean the attitude which makes reason instead ..."

6. The Contemporary Review (1866)
"The aim of the volumes is to trace the " History of the Eise and influence of the Spirit of rationalism in Europe,"—something very different, as the reader ..."

7. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"rationalism, the logical development of that empiricism first taught by Bacon, ... With phenomenal rapidity, Germany passed through a period of rationalism, ..."

8. A History of German Literature by John George Robertson (1902)
"rationalism, the logical development of that empiricism first taught by Bacon, ... With phenomenal rapidity, Germany passed through a period of rationalism, ..."

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