irrationalist

Examples

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• Following in the irrationalist tradition of Hobbes and Hume, pessimists lament that reason is impotent when confronted by the passions: the party is playing with fire.

  Academic text (1999)

• Arendt's attraction to the German high philosophical tradition, and Berlin's attraction to irrationalist figures and ideas far beyond the liberal pale, attest to such complications in opposite ways.

  Academic text (1999)

• The right-wing, irrationalist political movement asserts that Obama was not born in the USA and is, therefore, not the legitimate president of the USA.

  Blog text (8)

• I am suggesting that the ahistoric, irrationalist concept of "scapegoating" or "negative identity" cannot explain "prejudice"; rather, the pluralists are admitting there is no basis for unity in class societies whose politics are organized around national or ethnic "peaceful competition."

  Blog text (1)

• The irrationalist interpretation of Nazism as an outpouring of bad middle-class taste was followed by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, defending modernism in its reconstruction of the Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition of 1937.

  Blog text (1)

• His views on climate change are often labeled as irrationalist, prioritizing emotions over scientific evidence.

• The film's irrationalist approach emphasizes feelings and intuition rather than logical arguments.

• Critics describe the group's ideology as irrationalist, focusing on faith instead of rational discourse.

Synonyms

I

irrational

vsirrationalist

192 4.4

Not based on clear reason or thinking

chooses feeling or faith over reason rather than merely lacking logic

F

fideistic

vsirrationalist

• Specialized

9.9

To believe that faith is more important than reason

prefers intuition and emotion as well as faith over reason

Antonyms

R

rationalist

3 7.0

A person who trusts reason and observable facts, not supernatural explanations

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