rationalistically

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• During the debate, she rationalistically evaluated both sides of the argument before making her decision.

• In her research paper, she argued rationalistically, emphasizing the need for evidence-based conclusions.

• An example can be found in the dream of a rationalistically oriented researcher whose friend lay dying of AIDS in 1990.

  Academic text (1992)

• Now we romantically seek a spiritual life free from authority and tradition, or rationalistically seek truth as if human beings were autonomous and self-sufficient.

  Blog text (30)

• As long as the process of sharing meanings selects in favor of the rationalistically biased systems, my hypothesis remains alive.

  Academic text (1990)

• Although he had at his disposal only the relatively primitive findings of the scientific opinions of his day, he shows a deep understanding of the functioning of personality in a given set of circumstances, which enables him to portray behaviors with an astonishing prescience of advances later to be proven by experimentation and rationalistically established.

  Academic text (1992)

• Another, more rationalistically structured argument (studied by Roland Barthes in his Mythologies over forty years ago, under the name of the "alibi") is binary opposition, the neither-nor argument.

  Academic text (2000)

Synonyms

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logically

vsrationalistically

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You think clearly and sensibly to reach a reasonable answer

relies on abstract principles rather than concrete experience

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rationally

vsrationalistically

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In a clear, reasonable way based on facts

is guided by formal philosophical principles rather than practical experience

How Rational

rationalistically

• Formal

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rationally

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reasonably

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