It is eminently a product of what I have ventured to call the rationalistic temper. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
I plead guilty to a rational, not "rationalistic," approach to problems. From Wordnik.com. [Fail-Safe, &c.] Reference
Consequently it left unimpaired the scope of informational and abstract, or "rationalistic" studies. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
Its obvious deficiencies have caused it to be resorted to simply for filling in "rationalistic" knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy and Education: an introduction to the philosophy of education] Reference
At one end of the scale, it’s a sceptical pluralism: a practical, common-sense aversion to any kind of rationalistic ideology. From Wordnik.com. [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Really, Really Awful] Reference
The first stage in the process was the rationalistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
My rationalistic proclivities were given a free rein. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
His ideas of deity were cold and rationalistic, but they were pure and lofty. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
The rationalistic liberalism of Unitarianism has largely permeated New England. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
He was the first great representative of the modern secular and rationalistic spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Between the philosopher of purely rationalistic temper, and the poet who dares to take. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
It is this pragmatic ratio-empiricism which we imply when we use the term "rationalistic.". From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography] Reference
We have merely alluded to the rationalistic reaction of the philosophers and the Buddhists. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
Science, on the other hand, is the rationalistic, statistical and theoretical part of understanding. From Wordnik.com. [Jung: Resisting the 'New World Order '] Reference
If he can prove this, we must acknowledge that, not the rationalistic philosopher, but the poet, grasps reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Let me give you a few samples of the reasoning of rationalistic criticism as exhibited by its strongest advocates. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
Being of a rationalistic turn of mind, I was naturally very favorably impressed with Unitarianism and its teaching. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
So the conclusion to which my rationalistic guide finally led me was that I must sit down and die or be irrational. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
Moreover, Buddhism and other forms of rationalistic philosophy, after prolonged and thorough experiment, had also failed. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference
What is known as the Haskalah movement represents the application of the rationalistic method to the spiritual problems of. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
We may not shut our eyes to the fact that many of our colleges are more or less infected with this rationalistic criticism. From Wordnik.com. [The Testimony of the Bible Concerning the Assumptions of Destructive Criticism] Reference
In very early times Greece -- later imitated by Rome -- became resolutely rationalistic: her greatest originality lies here. From Wordnik.com. [The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism] Reference
But that influence has not been strong enough to overcome its early rationalistic bias from which it suffers to this very day. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
But while many ministers are not much injured apparently by their rationalistic taint, many others are, and all are more or less. From Wordnik.com. [To Infidelity and Back] Reference
Reginald Scot's rationalistic interpretation of this scene may be recommended to the commentating critics who have been so much at. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
The rationalistic tendencies of Mme. de Grignan give her some anxiety, and she rallies her often upon the doubtful philosophy of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Grotius, Seldenus and Pufendorf, he systematically assails the abstract, rationalistic, and utilitarian principles of the XVIII century. From Wordnik.com. [Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado] Reference
This rationalistic art is the art commonly called Renaissance, marked by a return to pagan systems, not to adopt them and hallow them for. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
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