rationalism
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Maybe I’m betraying my hopeless rationalism, but if I learned of the reality of time travel and “aerial spirits,” I’d be a little more preoccupied by it than Iris seems to be.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026
This “consumption downgrade” is not a move toward poverty but toward a militant form of rationalism.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 27, 2026
Prof Selove said: "This MA will allow people to re-examine the assumption that the West is the place of rationalism and science, while the rest of the world is a place of magic and superstition."
From BBC • Oct. 3, 2023
Oakeshott was horrified by this, and was also disturbed by the postwar British welfare state; this was the impetus for his denunciation of political rationalism.
From Salon • Jul. 1, 2023
There is a puzzle here, because the standard alternative to voluntarism is rationalism, and a rationalist would hold that the laws of nature, like the laws of mathematics, exist because they are necessary.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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Chapter 22: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
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