rational'istically
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rationalism (ˈræʃənəˌlɪzəm) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | reliance on reason rather than intuition to justify one's beliefs or actions |
| 2. | philosophy |
| a. the doctrine that knowledge about reality can be obtained by reason alone without recourse to experience | |
| b. the doctrine that human knowledge can all be encompassed within a single, usually deductive, system | |
| c. the school of philosophy initiated by Descartes which held both the above doctrines | |
| 3. | the belief that knowledge and truth are ascertained by rational thought and not by divine or supernatural revelation |
| 'rationalist | |
| —n | |
| rational'istic | |
| —adj | |
| rational'istically | |
| —adv | |
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Rational'istically
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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