ANTIRATIONALISMS Antonyms

• education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

• a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

• knowledge and intellectual ability

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• a person who uses the mind creatively

• the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference

• reasoned and reasonable judgment

• the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation

• the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations

• a system of reasoning

• (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

• the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

• (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired by reason without resort to experience

• the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes religious truth

• the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct

• the state of having good sense and sound judgment

• the quality of being consistent with or based on logic

• the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

• the state of being actual or real

• (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that physical objects continue to exist when not perceived

• an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description

• (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that abstract concepts exist independent of their names

• a rational motive for a belief or action

• an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• the state of having good sense and sound judgment

• a justification for something existing or happening

• a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion

• decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

• present reasons and arguments

• think logically

• a particular branch of scientific knowledge

• ability to produce solutions in some problem domain