(n.) The doctrine or system of those who deduce their religious opinions from reason or the understanding, as distinct from, or opposed to, revelation.
(n.) The system that makes rational power the ultimate test of truth; -- opposed to sensualism, or sensationalism, and empiricism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(2) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(3) We are the generation who saw the war,, who ate bread received with ration cards.
(4) The yeasts amounts used did not protect the test animals from the kidney infiltration with lipids and cholesterol; 12 g of yeasts per 100 g of the ration promoted elevation of sialic acid content in the blood plasma.
(5) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
(6) The rational surgical methods of treatment in 85 patients with suppurative hepatic echinococcosis penetrating into the abdomen cavity are presented.
(7) Knowledge of these lesions could form the basis for establishing a useful and rational therapy for such cases.
(8) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
(9) --The influence of the digestibility of the energy in the ration on the energetic retention effect of BFC is small.
(10) The length of delay is determined by unconscious, non-rational processes, and other factors beyond her control.
(11) But it can be a more rational and better developed approach to long-term care based on the experience and knowledge we have gained in the past 50 years.
(12) The authors further show how test results can be used rationally by clinicians by so-called threshold analysis.
(13) The aetiology remains at present uncertain and therefore rational therapeutic strategies are difficult to plan.
(14) The origin of these substances is unknown, but these findings provide a rational basis for trials of benzodiazepine-receptor antagonists in the management of this disorder.
(15) We reviewed our experience with 245 thyroidectomies to define the spectrum of hypocalcemia, elucidate the mechanisms of hypocalcemia, and formulate a rational basis for its management.
(16) The data obtained can be useful when choosing a rational method for the therapy of gastric scretory disorders.
(17) Willie Spies, its legal representative, said: "Rationality has to return to the debate.
(18) A 35-kg Duroc pig died 3 days after eating a ration containing aflatoxin B1, B2, G1, and G2.
(19) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
(20) The resolution of the cellular events which underlie the development of pancreatitis in combination with the introduction of new therapeutic agents may enable a rational and safe protocol to be developed for the support of patients with pancreatitis.
Rationalist
Definition:
(n.) One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a self-described rationalist, she felt compelled to act.
(2) I just don’t understand what the problem is for the Liberal party, which is meant to be the economic rationalist party, to support that.” The Climate Institute said it hoped to see Australia’s timeline for setting post-2020 emissions reduction goals in New York.
(3) Explanations of rural-urban fertility differentials have normally lain in assumptions about the traditionalist nature of rural, and especially agricultural, societies in contrast to the more rationalist and modern attitudes towards the family that exist in urban societies.
(4) Lichtenberg is shown to have insisted upon the need for a systematic and rationalistic study of dreams, to have analyzed individual dreams (describing them as dramatized representations of thoughts, associations, and even conflicts from his own waking life), and to have emphasized the functional link between dreams and daydreams.
(5) Thus, my solution generates its own contradiction for I have again, as Scholnick argues, based my solution at some level of organicism: a point that will not escape the discerning realist or, for that matter, the discerning rationalist.
(6) One after another incident is happening and they are not able to do anything.” Debasish Debu, a friend of Das, said the 33-year-old banker was also an editor of a quarterly magazine called Jukti (Logic) and headed the Sylhet-based science and rationalist council.
(7) The modified conceptions of health and illness can help to overcome the division between subject and object, a consequence of Cartesian rationalistic thought.
(8) One of the major problems that surrounds this molecule is the myocardial contractility depression, the solution of which could allow a more rationalistic therapeutic approach to that which remains one of the most complex and delicate clinical framework.
(9) Into the electric world intrude elements that displace modernity – ghosts, monsters, devil worship and, for some rationalists, religion itself.
(10) Rationalistic simplifications in legal quarters, changes in legal procedures and bureaucracy have had negative effects on the field of forensic medicine.
(11) Explicit motivations tend to be objective and rationalist, concerned with such goals as the advancement and organization of knowledge.
(12) Two approaches to decision making are outlined: the rationalist perspective and the phenomenological perspective, and a model illustrating each is discussed.
(13) It’s the single greatest threat to our way of life since the 1940s.” Jeremy Lawrence, who had donned a papier-mâché shark as a hat, said he was marching as an “economic rationalist and libertarian”.
(14) Baez rebelled young and not for the sake of it; she was a little rationalist.
(15) Tolstoy used the character of Prince Bolkonski to exemplify the rationalistic, Western-influenced aristocracy that dominated Russia at the end of the 18th century.
(16) As rationalists, should one also reject the Queen's Christmas message Robin It definitely exists.
(17) Are there any rationalist jokes that would be suitable for a Christmas cracker?
(18) These two ways of knowing have been variously described by Bruner as paradigmatic vs. narrative, by Kuzel as rationalistic vs. naturalistic, and by Stephens as seeing vs. hearing.
(19) rationalistic) casted beyond the reefs of knowing the author tries to find traces to make up a new perspective of the horizon.
(20) This paper attacks the Kantian conception of mortality that predominates in our society and the rationalist educational strategies that flow from it.