7 example sentences using rationalism.
Rationalism used in a sentence
Rationalism in a sentence as a noun
I'm so thankful that my parents taught me rationalism and manners.
Science, reason and rationalism are not incompatible with an ego.
It seems purpose built to garner upvotes from many of those who frequent HN - insults the American right wing while praising European level-headedness and rationalism.
So I pursue rationalism as a positive good for my family and for my society, after having had a childhood upbringing with more nonrational dogmas than I know adhere to.
Witches don't like being called "witches" because in today's political climate, that label is disapproved. Actually being a witch, however, is not. So they use lightly-coded language like religious tolerance, atheism, rationalism, skepticism.
I self-identify as a rationalist because, after a lifetime of being curious and wanting to know what is true, I have found rationalism a powerful instrumental means of discovering truth.
Furthermore, illness and death are exactly the times when human beings are most likely to abandon rationalism and cling to magic, so these are the very times when the fight is most important, and we shouldn't shy away from that just because it makes us uncomfortable to tell the dying their fairytales are untrue.
Rationalism definitions
(philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience
the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth
the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct
See also: freethinking