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  • n  (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
  • n  the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth
  • n  the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

  • It is the genius (and I use that word advisedly) of Daniel Day-Lewis's performance to slowly, patiently, show the madness replacing his former rationalism, to prepare us for the .
  • But even a brief investigation provides a vivid look into what experts call "the shadow side" of Tibetan Buddhism, contrasting the tolerance and rationalism that the Dalai Lama .
  • I would ask him, Are rationalism, spirituality and humanitarianism and logicare they bad things for human beings? Why more conflict? Why should we go for hostilities?.
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  • DINEEN: My Queer Rage
    As I develop my queer identity, it is as if I am stoking the coals and fanning the flames of my queer rage so that it builds with ever more intensity each day. While I have queered myself to the point of no return, the world of rigidity and rationalism […]
    Oct. 17, 2013 - The Cornell Daily Sun
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  • Pope Benedict XVI in Catholic World News
    Theological studies, the Pope said, are particularly vulnerable "in a world tempted, on the one hand, by a rationalism which follows a false idea of freedom unfettered by any religious references and, on the other, by various forms of fundamentalism...
  • Jonathan Calt Harris in American Thinker
    Jonathan Calt Harris, formerly with CW, called the organization a "hive of academic opposition to America, Israel, and, in the larger sense, rationalism itself."

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