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单词 rationalist
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rationalistn.adj.

Brit. /ˈraʃn̩əlɪst/, /ˈraʃn̩l̩ɪst/, /ˈraʃənl̩ɪst/, /ˈraʃ(ə)nəlɪst/, U.S. /ˈræʃənl̩əst/, /ˈræʃnələst/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rational adj., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < rational adj. + -ist suffix. Compare Middle French rationaliste rational physician (c1550), French rationaliste person whose opinions are based on reasoning or rationalism (1718; 1842 as adjective).
A. n.
1.
a. A person whose opinions are based on pure reasoning (cf. empiricist n.); (Philosophy) one who emphasizes the role of reason in knowledge, or claims that reason rather than sense experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [noun] > one who is reasonable
philosopher1600
rationalist1625
rational1755
reasonable1814
rationalizer1826
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [noun] > rationalist
rational?1541
rationalist1625
the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun] > one who reasons
arguer1377
reasoner1546
logician1592
discoursist1622
rationalist1625
argumentator1635
ratiocinator1677
1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes ii. §21 The empirical philosophers are like to pismires... The rationalists are like the spiders.
1656 S. Hunton Golden Law 79 It concerns the highest Governour, who is Judge of all,..to be an absolute rationalist, for that reason is the intention of Law.
1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry Pref. p. xv He sees fully, what the rationalists among modern critics have not always seen, the power of popular opinion and belief upon poetical credibility.
1801 T. S. Surr Splendid Misery II. 163 Whatever you may say, or all the Rationalists in the world may preach,..there is such a thing as falling in love at first sight.
1864 M. Dix Lect. on Pantheistic Idea 82 A man who, once a Christian, had outlived his better days, to stand at last avowed a philosophizer and a rationalist.
1912 B. Russell Problems of Philosophy vii. 114 The rationalists..maintained that, in addition to what we know by experience, there are certain ‘innate ideas’ and ‘innate principles’, which we know independently of experience.
1936 A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic iv. 93 Some rationalists have gone so far as to say that thought is the only source of knowledge.
1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 2 June 599/1 He was..a rationalist in philosophy, in the tradition of Descartes, Spinoza & Leibniz.
b. A rational physician (see rational adj. 6). Now historical.
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the world > health and disease > healing > healer > physician > [noun] > of specific schools or theoretical standpoints > ancient
rationalist1683
1683 R. Browne tr. R.Bacon Cure Old Age & Preserv. Youth 90 Here this great Chymist shews himself as great a Rationalist as Galen himself.
1740 T. Thompson Hist. Gout iv. 155 I say, he that acts thus, acts from Reason, and may justly be called a Rationalist.
1876 J. Van Duyn & E. C. Seguin tr. E. L. Wagner Man. Gen. Pathol. 5 Those physicians are called rationalists who do not value the facts themselves so highly as their explanation.
1975 H. L. Coulter Divided Legacy I. iv. xviii. 486 Rationalists after Galen, however, produced coction by contraries and then called for a new group of medicines to bring about the desired evacuation.
2. (a) Theology. A person who considers reason to be the ultimate authority in religion; spec. a person who explains supernatural or miraculous events on a rational basis (cf. rationalism n. 1a). (b) Philosophy. A person who regards reason as the only guiding principle in life, and who thereby rejects the need for reliance on, or adherence to, any form of religious belief (cf. rationalism n. 1b).
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [noun] > rationalist > who denies a need for religion
rationalist1641
society > faith > aspects of faith > theology > systems of theology > [noun] > Rationalistic > adherent of
rationalist1641
new light1647
New Lighter1749
neologist1822
neologian1842
modernist1907
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [noun] > rationalism > person
rationalist1641
pragmatizer1847
1641 W. Prynne Antipathie 350 He must have the use of both his hands..(as we are taught by the Rationalists) that he may be stretching forth his armes, to represent the extension of Christ on the Crosse.
1647 Let. 14 Oct. in Earl of Clarendon State Papers (1773) II. App. p. xl The Presbyterian and Independent agree well enough together. But there is a new sect sprung up among them, and these are the Rationalists.
1661 R. Sanderson in J. Ussher Power communicated by God sig. d3 A mere Rationalist, (that is to say in plain English, an Atheist of the late edition).
1713 tr. W. van Metternich Faith & Reason Compared p. iii When I first read these Theses laid down on the Part of the Rationalists, I confess, I thought the Author had undertaken a hard and difficult Task to Answer and Refute them.
1747 (title) A letter to the author of An address to all rationalists in Great Britain.
1789 J. Erskine in Life C. Nisbet (1840) 197 He is half way over to the German Rationalists (as they call themselves).
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §12. 45 The Rationalist..makes the whole subject of Religion and Revelation..a matter of sensible evidence or intellectual demonstration.
1876 Constructive Rationalism 5 The destruction of orthodox Christianity being accomplished, there remains for the Rationalist much more to do. He has to frame a code which shall rule in the place of the code of Moses and of Jesus.
1897 Agnostic Ann. 1 42 Why do eminent Rationalists, Freethinkers, and Agnostics stand aloof.
1908 Lit. Guide 1 Aug. 121/1 A Rationalist or an Ethicist can seldom get credit for what he does, however good his intentions.
1954 Rationalist Ann. 73 I cannot possibly make my probabilities into certainties, and this is what some Rationalists appear..to do.
1973 C. Campbell in Rationalism in 1970s 81 It is an important part of a rationalist's duty to clear himself of myths..as well as to expose the myths of others.
1996 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Sept. 40/2 He is a true rationalist, philosophically at home among the European thinkers of the eighteenth century, such as Condorcet, who called themselves moral scientists.
3. A woman who wears rational dress (see rational adj. and adv. Compounds). Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] > in specific way > with specific clothing > adoption of rational dress > one who
rational1896
rationalist1899
1899 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Apr. 222 The hotels, etc. at which Rationalists are welcome.
4. Chiefly Economics. A person who advocates or practises the use of reasoning and calculation as a basis for social or economic analysis, planning, organization, etc. Cf. rational adj. 3b, rationalism n. 4.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [noun] > political economy > specific theories or doctrines > supporters of
physiocrat1798
Ricardian1825
protectionist1834
marginalist1907
cameralist1909
Keynesian1938
rationalist1958
monetarist1961
structuralist1962
Paretan1969
Veblenian1973
market fundamentalist1993
1958 G. Myrdal Value in Social Theory iii. 57 The American has..started to measure, not only human intelligence,..and personality traits, but moral leanings and the ‘goodness’ of communities. He is a rationalist.
1969 A. Etzioni in G. Lindzey & E. Aronson Handbk. Social Psychol. (ed. 2) V. 547 In effect, the rationalists advocate an approach that maximises conflict and makes nuclear war more likely.
1977 T. Parsons Social Syst. & Evol. of Action Theory i. 71 Phrasing it as ‘the problem’ I hope makes clear that I have not been a naïve rationalist.
5. Architecture. An adherent of rationalism (rationalism n. 5).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > other styles > adherents of
historicist1905
functionalist1930
brutalist1954
Miesian1956
rationalist1960
postmodernist1979
1960 R. Banham Theory & Design in First Machine Age iii. 147 The Wright/Berlage relationship filled in a gap in a spectrum of architectural ideas that ran from the Futurists at one extreme to the Rationalists and Academics at the other.
1979 Archit. Rev. July 3/3 There are architects around who actually call themselves Rationalists again... They have that same obsession with pure geometric forms.
2004 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 7 Mar. (Arts & Living section) e1 Hacker and his partners and designers are structural rationalists and classical Modernists.
B. adj.
1. = rationalistic adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > rationalism > [adjective]
rationalist1827
rationalistic1828
rationalistical1847
logocentric1939
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > mysticism > [adjective] > not
unmystical1821
rationalist1827
rationalistic1828
society > trade and finance > management of money > management of national resources > [adjective] > of or relating to specific policies or actions
imperial1726
co-operative1821
protectionist1844
inflationist1876
rational1915
deflationist1921
rationalist1942
producer-oriented1946
redistributionist1949
substantivist1956
supply side1957
demand-pull1958
tax-and-spend1960
stop-and-go1961
stop-go1962
go-stop1964
supply-driven1973
demand-side1975
supply side1976
demand-driven1980
1827 W. E. Evanson tr. K. G. Bretschneider Apol. Mod. Theol. Protestant Germany 70 For the dogmatical part of the Rationalist opinions [Ger. Rationalismus], Barhdt's ‘Systema Theol. Luther. Orthodox’ is very convenient.
a1857 R. A. Vaughan Ess. & Remains (1858) I. 49 Rationalist criticism has always been content with the endeavour to destroy.
1873 L. Stephen Ess. Freethinking 319 The answer given by the rationalist divines.
1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah p. lxxiii They banish the Bible from their houses, and sometimes put into the hands of their unfortunate children Ethical and Rationalist tracts of the deadliest dullness.
1942 J. A. Schumpeter Capitalism, Socialism & Democracy (1943) xi. 122 There is however one more point about the concept of rationalist civilizations that I will mention here.
1955 P. Edwards Logic Moral Disc. ii. 52 The Rationalist view of causation.
1973 F. A. Hayek Law, Legislation & Liberty i. 33 The desire to remodel society after the image of individual man..since Hobbes has governed rationalist political theory.
2000 J. Caughie Television Drama viii. 208 We in Film Studies came dangerously close to such an ‘intellectual cleansing’ in the enthusiasm for..remorselessly rationalist discourse out of which our discipline was formed after 1968.
2. Architecture. Of or characterized by rationalism (rationalism n. 5).
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > other styles
florida1706
massive1723
rounded1757
round-arched1782
castellar1789
baronial1807
rational1813
English colonial1817
massy1817
transitional1817
Scottish Baronial1829
rococo1830
flamboyant1832
Scotch Baronial1833
Churrigueresque1845
Russo-Byzantine1845
soaring1849
trenchant1849
vernacular1857
Scots Baronial1864
baroque1867
Perp.1867
rayonnant1873
Dutch colonial1876
Neo-Grec1878
rococoesque1885
Richardsonian1887
federal1894
organic1896
confectionery1897
European-style1907
postmodern1916
Lutyens1921
modern1927
moderne1928
functionalist1930
Williamsburg1931
Colonial Revival1934
packing case1935
Corbusian1936
lavatorial1936
pseudish1938
Adamesque1942
rationalist1952
Miesian1956
open-planned1958
Lutyensesque1961
façade1962
Odeon1964
high-tech1979
Populuxe1986
1952 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 11 4 The ‘bracketed work’ which he was designing in the 1840s..is so creative in form, so rationalist in basis.
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Nov. 770/2 Their scheme..is reduced to Rationalist fundamentals: street, arcade, balcony and window.
1983 N.Y. Times 4 Dec. ii. 40/4 Housing that is unusually inviting..—far more so than the rationalist housing produced in Germany by the architects of the International Style.
2004 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 5 Apr. (Metro section) 2 b Viguier's architecture is strictly linear and rationalist, strongly influenced by modernist icon Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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