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  • It goes along with the fixed belief of printers that to be a Rationalist is the same thing as to be a

    All Things Considered 1905

  • Wolff cannot be termed a Rationalist in the common acceptation of the term, though his doctrines contributed to the growth of neological thinking.

    History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868

  • Having said that he was an Atheist, I hasten to add that he was a "Rationalist" of the old, high and dry nineteenth; century type.

    Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

  • "Rationalist" argument is licit or illicit, but whether, in its lawful use, it is to be regarded as infallible or fallible.

    The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845

  • But I admit the policy of a change of name: 'Rationalist' and

    The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Henry Rogers 1841

  • Reason vs Passion: Maieutic fiction begins in the abjection of the “self-delusional” aspects of romance by which the Rationalist/Realist/realist novel is, in part, constructed.

    On Mimetic and Maieutic Fiction Hal Duncan 2009

  • Reason vs Passion: Maieutic fiction begins in the abjection of the “self-delusional” aspects of romance by which the Rationalist/Realist/realist novel is, in part, constructed.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Where Marxist or feminist or queer readings may be asking pertinent questions of the text, and on a very theoretical level, a Rationalist or Romanticist critique is actually compatibility assessment masquerading as ethical critique.

    Ethics and Enthusiasm Hal Duncan 2009

  • For me, that essay binds Fantasy to the features of generic consolatory Romanticism -- pre-industrial, nostalgic, etc. -- neglecting more Rationalist and (Post) Modernist approaches.

    Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

  • It indicates that the strange is being exploited as a conceit rather than for the affect that it produces -- idyllic, uncanny, cryptic -- that the narrative is not therefore bound within the narrative grammars of Romanticism but rather has adopted a Rationalist narrative logic of realism.

    Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

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