Rationalist is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for RATIONALIST in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an adherent of rationalism
• a person who bases their opinions and actions on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response
• a person who believes that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge
• a person who considers reason to be the ultimate authority in religion
• One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
• someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes
ADJECTIVE:
• based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response
• relating to the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge
• relating to the practice of treating reason as the ultimate authority in religion
• of or relating to or characteristic of rationalism
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• reliance on reason as the basis for establishment of religious truth

Words related to RATIONALIST

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Words that contain RATIONALIST

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How to use RATIONALIST in a sentence

• He was a rationalist, and his schools, which had a marked success, were entirely secular.
• Rousseau was, however, a sentimentalist rather than a rationalist, an artist rather than a philosopher.
• In philosophy he is at present a convinced Rationalist.
• A thorough rationalist, he claimed to accept the spiritual essence of Christianity, and to value highly the moral teachings of Jesus.
• On the contrary, Spencer is much more a rationalist, and insists on the intellectual basis both of morals and of religion.
• Had she been less thoroughly a rationalist she would doubtless have become a mystic in fact.
• No rationalist account is possible of action, change, or immediate life, 244.
• I am as good a son as any rationalist among you to our common mother.
• One of our duties is to know truth, and rationalist thinkers have always assumed it to be our sovereign duty.
• It goes along with the fixed belief of printers that to be a Rationalist is the same thing as to be a Nationalist.
• He was a member of the Rationalist Press Association, and he had always taken it for granted that Benham was an orthodox unbeliever.
• No Cambridge Rationalist can presume to deny that I feel a certain emotion, but the moment I attempt to prove the existence of its object I lay myself open to a bad four hours.
• For I found in my rationalist teachers no explanation of such exceptional corruption.
• The first answer is simply to say that I am a rationalist.
• But I am in this matter yet more definitely a rationalist.
• The Arminian priest turns the rationalist over to the penal fires of eternity, because he is in mental error as to the explanation of the Trinity and the Atonement.
• Before a step is taken in this direction we must be able to prove Divinity from the standpoint of reason so that no doubt or objection may remain for the rationalist.
• Other religions have their myths, or fables, therefore, the Hebrew and Christian records are fables, says the Rationalist.
• This is the sum of what, with various modifications, Rationalist writers and preachers present us, as the genuine historic basis of the Mosaic narrative.
• But what has not been sufficiently noticed is the way in which the rationalist theologians such as Canon Princeteau called into existence the unbelievers of the succeeding age.
• No doubt, many a Rationalist, as he looked back from his death-bed on the ruin to which he had contributed, trembled with astonishment at the poisonous fruit of his labors.
• Paulus tries to prove the great Saxon a Rationalist by the following circumstance.
• He answered the charges against his orthodoxy by stoutly denying that he had turned Rationalist.
• The author, a moderate Rationalist, attempts in vain to identify Protestantism and Rationalism.
• Paulus, attempt of, to prove Luther a Rationalist, 31.
• Such a pitch of heroism and abstraction has not been reached by any rationalist since.
• In this way, Perrycoste, whose attitude is that of the Rationalist, is led by science to a conclusion which is that of the Christian.
• At whatever point the Rationalist we have attempted to describe may take his stand, we do not think it difficult to prove that his conduct is eminently irrational.
• Later, with a sense of mischievous amusement she rummaged in the book-room to find one of the Rationalist books.

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