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Meanings of rationalist in anglès
portuguès
positivista català
racionalista Someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes.
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Examples for "positivist"
Examples for "positivist"
1
The positivist belief in universal and rigid determinism, especially shown in Taine.
2
They are bringing the wonder of the world back to the positivist.
3
These positivist sentiments sound strange, particularly from the mouth of a Brâhman.
4
The man was a leveller, a chartist, a positivist- adespiserof dignities!
5
But let's rather return to our original problem, the positivist philosophy.
Usage of rationalist in anglès
1
He was a superb rationalist; but after that he did not exist.
2
Bolt's support for Aird's economic rationalist views on Aboriginal affairs is well-documented.
3
We have in Taine not a critical rationalist but a dogmatic rationalist.
4
The first answer is simply to say that I am a rationalist.
5
I had left the temple a devotee, and was returned a rationalist.
6
Believer or unbeliever, rationalist, evolutionist, he was still the same to them.
7
If you're a rationalist, there's something a little dispiriting about all this.
8
This paradigm was replaced by the new rationalist paradigm of the eighteenth century.
9
I was always drawn to religion, but my father was materialist, a rationalist.
10
For I found in my rationalist teachers no explanation of such exceptional corruption.
11
But I am in this matter yet more definitely a rationalist.
12
That means the empiricist temper regnant, and the rationalist temper sincerely given up.
13
The rationalist likes to plan everything in advance before making the first move.
14
There was indeed something about him which displeased a rationalist scholar and ascetic.
15
He looked into my face and said, 'You are a rationalist.'
16
He was only some crazy tub-thumping rationalist who interested her with his theories.
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