rationalism

1. Philosophy The theory that the exercise of reason, rather than experience, authority, or spiritual revelation, provides the primary basis for knowledge.

2. Reliance on reason as the best guide for belief and action.

3. Reliance on reason as the basis for establishment of religious truth.

4. A theory that reason is in itself a source of knowledge superior to and independent of sense perceptions.

5. A view that reason and experience rather than the nonrational are the fundamental criteria in the solution of problems.

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