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Rationalist

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Rationalist meaning

A person who follows the philosophy of rationalism. | A member of the rationalist community.

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A rationalist assassinwould be something else entirely.

If you have an economic rationalist position, you'll end up with just toll roads, which will be self-defeating," he said.

Nehru remained a hardcore rationalist throughout his life.

Bengaluru: The CBI and Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) on Saturday afternoon arrested the alleged shooter of Pune-based rationalist Dr Narendra Dabholkar from Aurangabad in Maharashtra.

Five years after doctor and rationalist Narendra Dabholkar was murdered, scientists from across the state will mark his death anniversary — August 20 — as National Scientific Temper Day.

The list evidently features those who are vocal about their anti-Hindutva stance and rationalist Dwarkanath had even questioned the existence of Lord Rama.

After a six-year stay in Rome, Labrouste opened an architectural training workshop, which quickly became the center of the rationalist view.

American Unitarian Association. p. 563 Rationalist Press Association Limited, 1957.

British empiricism British empiricism marked something of a reaction to rationalist and system-building philosophy, or speculative metaphysics as it was pejoratively termed.

Ferguson (1974), p. 50 Clement, like many pre-Nicene fathers, writes favourably about Euhemerus and other rationalist philosophers, on the grounds that they at least saw the flaws in paganism.

Further they outlined an alternative vision to neo-classicism based on a rationalist theory of knowledge.

Galen's education had exposed him to the four major schools of thought (Platonists, Peripatetics, Stoics, Epicureans), with teachers from the Rationalist sect and from the Empiricist sect.

His work reconciled many of the differences between the rationalist and empiricist traditions of the 18th century.

However, as he was a convinced rationalist, Descartes clearly states that reason is sufficient in the search for the goods that we should seek, and virtue consists in the correct reasoning that should guide our actions.

In 1935, the Rationalist architect Luigi Cosenza created a new fish market for the city.

In the early modern period (17th and 18th centuries), the system-building scope of philosophy is often linked to the rationalist method of philosophy, which is the technique of deducing the nature of the world by pure a priori reason.

Kant saw rationalist philosophers as aiming for a kind of metaphysical knowledge he defined as the synthetic apriori —that is knowledge that does not come from the senses (it is a priori ) but is nonetheless about reality (synthetic).

Les tables tournantes de Jersey. main Extracts from meeting minutes published by Gustave Simon main in 1923 and in later years settled into a rationalist deism similar to that espoused by Voltaire main.

Most sources say that Democritus followed in the tradition of Leucippus and that they carried on the scientific rationalist philosophy associated with Miletus.

Nineteenth-century rationalist writers, reflecting the evolutionist spirits of their times, tended to explain the lack of rationality and the dominance of false beliefs in pre-modern worlds in terms of the deficient mental equipment of their inhabitants.