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Definition of Rationalisms
1. rationalism [n] - See also: rationalism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rationalisms
Literary usage of Rationalisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Little Essays by George Santayana, Logan Pearsall Smith (1921)
"70 PRECARIOUS rationalisms THE most legitimate constructions of reason soon become
merely speculative, soon pass, I mean, beyond the sphere of practical ..."
2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren (1917)
"Philosophically it meant the contention, in the face of existing rationalisms
and skepticisms, that man's practical ..."
3. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"... und rationalisms, which aro the plague of our hearts in this seventieth year
of our troublesome nineteenth century." It will be new even to some ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1921)
"But it must be living reason, in closest alliance with living will and real
feeling, not the rigid, abstract reason of many arid rationalisms of the past, ..."
5. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"... a recommendation to our Established clergy, not possessed by the work of
Gesenius, which abounds with the rationalisms of the German school. — William. ..."
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