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	Indian rationalists call Mother Teresa's miracle hocus-pocus
		A group of rationalists on Friday demonstrated against a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa that is being cited by the Vatican for her beatification.
		The rationalists have described as "bunkum" the claim that an Indian tribal woman was cured of a tubercular tumour after she prayed to the revered nun in 1998.
		A rationalist group in the state says a woman reportedly cured of cancer by placing a photograph of the nun on her stomach had subsequently received treatment in government hospitals.
	www.mukto-mona.com /Articles/mother_teresa/prabir_news.htm (1638 words)

	Rationalism vs. Empiricism
		Rationalists, such as Descartes, have claimed that we can know by intuition and deduction that God exists and created the world, that our mind and body are distinct substances, and that the angles of a triangle equal two right angles, where all of these claims are truths about an external reality independent of our thought.
		Rationalists who assert the existence of innate knowledge are not just claiming that, as a matter of human evolution, God's design or some other factor, at a particular point in our development, certain sorts of experiences trigger our belief in particular propositions in a way that does not involve our learning them from the experiences.
		Rationalists have responded to the second part of the empiricist attack on the Innate Concept thesis--the empricists' claim that the thesis is without basis, as all our ideas can be explained as derived from experience--by focusing on difficulties in the empiricists' attempts to give such an explanation.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/rationalism-empiricism (8940 words)

	John Quiggin - Journal Articles 1997 - Economic rationalism
		The implication was that the 'economic rationalists' relied on open and unbiased inquiry to determine those policies that would best serve the interests of society while their opponents' approach was based on slogans or on unquestioning adherence to the status quo.
		By the late 1970s, economic rationalists had largely adopted the microeconomic views of the Chicago school, rejecting ideas of market failure in favour of the belief that the simple neoclassical model of perfect competition was a good description of the economy, or would be in the absence of undesirable government intervention.
		The assocation of economic rationalists with the financial and mining sectors is reflected in their attitudes to community services such as health and education, and to the environment.
	www.uq.edu.au /economics/johnquiggin/JournalArticles97/Econrat97.html (3971 words)

	Learning Styles and Personality Types
		Rationalists tend to be independent and competitive and have the least interest in forming common bonds.
		Rationalists are seeking an overview of how things operate, exploring the "whys."They look for whatever will enable them to understand, explain, predict, and control.
		When they are interested in a particular topic, Rationalists may spend hours reading about it and researching it believing they should be able to know everything about it.
	www.wncc.edu /studentservices/counseling/styles_types/44_rationalists.html (831 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Underlying all of them is the rationalistic postulate which denies the fact and even the possibility of Divine intervention in the evolution of religion.
		It is on this connection that modern rationalists have brought all their learning and research to bear in the effort to show that the whole later intellectual system of Christianity is something more or less alien to its original conception.
		It was the transference of Christianity from a Semitic to a Greek soil that explains, according to Dr. Hatch (Hibbert Lectures, 1888), "why an ethical sermon stood in the forefront of the teaching of Jesus, and a metaphysical creed in the forefront of the Christianity of the fourth century".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03712a.htm (8663 words)

	Stoneforest.org
		However that is not to say Rationalists distrust sensory experiences but only to regard them as inferior when compared to pure reason.
		The so-called innate ideas of human, the rationalists claimed we have, are often tautological statements which say nothing of the real world in which we live in.
		Rationalists also have a hard time in explaining that much of our knowledge we hold is gained through experience.
	www.stoneforest.org /philosophy/davidhume.html (2047 words)

	TheStreet.com: The Great Debate: Empiricism vs. Rationalism
		The rationalists begin with the premise that foreign-exchange prices are a reflection of the relative supplies of money between two countries.
		Therefore, the rationalists conclude that the yen should be strengthening.
		The rationalists in essence argue that current-account deficits tend to be a negative influence for a currency.
	www.thestreet.com /comment/currency/787289.html (990 words)

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		Rationalists can constrain a priori belief revision by claiming that a priori justification comes in degrees and that beliefs about the degree of one's a priori justification are not subject to independent justification.
		Rationalists generally agree that the truth-conduciveness of rational insight cannot be explained in terms of causal-perceptual models.
		Rationalists typically bridle at the claim and respond with remarks such as "What could be more familiar?" followed by a phenomenological description of the state.
	www.unl.edu /philosop/people/faculty/casullo/ac_Coherence.htm (6726 words)

	Continental Rationalism Briefly Characterized
		The Rationalists' period is marked by a change in the attitude toward the medieval institutions and beliefs.
		According to the Continental Rationalists, the appropriate methodology for building upon the self-evident truths is the deductive axiomatic method of mathematics (as especially exemplified in geometry) wherein theorems are derived from axioms and postulates.
		In saying that the Continental Rationalists' conception of reason is that knowledge (or truth) is a arranged in a deductive system, we speak about both their epistemology and their metaphysics.
	www.fiu.edu /~hauptli/ContinentalRationalismBrieflyCharacterized.html (1100 words)

	What it Takes to be a Rationalist by Ali Sina
		As self-proclaimed rationalists we can easily dismiss the claim of the religionists that their belief is rational.
		Just as the religionists should be humble and admit that their sacred book does not have answer to everything, we, the rationalists, must humbly accept that our science is at its infancy and it does not have the answer to all the questions.
		The response of the pseudo rationalist is denial.
	www.mukto-mona.com /Special_Event_/rationalist_day/rationalism_sina.htm (6075 words)

	Alston's Epistemic Level Confusion and Disguised Fideism
		As (critical) rationalists, such falsificationists interpret the rationalistic maxim as implying we aim at the truth and approach this goal when we (tentatively and critically) accept only those beliefs and theories which are falsifiable but not yet falsified.
		For justificatory rationalists to adopt realism recommended by Alston and maintain that their beliefs are justified while also admitting that they are unable to show or establish that this is the case would be for them to adopt a “blind” faith.
		On such a reading, the rationalistic maxim imposes no obligation upon rationalists to justify their theories and commitments—the only obligation it imposes is that they limit themselves to those theories, beliefs, commitments, and evaluations which are, in fact, justified.
	www.fiu.edu /~hauptli/Alston'sEpistemicLevelConfusionandDisguisedFideism.html (4823 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Rationalism
		Revelation was not denied by the Rationalists; though, as a matter of fact, if not of theory, it was quietly suppressed by the claim, with its ever-increasing application, that reason is the competent judge of all truth.
		For Supernaturalists and Rationalists alike religion was held to be "a way of knowing and worshipping the Deity", but consisting chiefly, for the Rationalists, in the observance of God's law.
		All the devices of exegesis were employed vainly; and, in the end, Rationalists found themselves forced to admit that the authors of the New Testament must have written from a point of view different from that which a modern theologian would adopt (Henke, Wegseheider).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12652a.htm (2006 words)

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		For rationalists such as Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, the primary source of knowledge is some form of intellectual intuition, a purely intellectual act, "the mind's eye," analogous to visual perception.
		Pure rationalists stress that clear and distinct, infallible reasoning cannot occur if reason is corrupted or clouded by emotion, passion, imagination, or distracted by sense experience.
		The rationalists rejected this claim and insisted that only knowledge obtained by pure reason could be mistake-free.
	unr.edu /homepage/nickles/wthonors/rationalism-empiricism.htm (1624 words)

	Rationalism - The Intellectual Bedrock of Secularism
		A charge very often made against the rationalists in apparently quite a convincing manner is that as rationalists refuse to accept any phenomenon that is beyond human understanding they wrongly deny the existence of many such phenomenon.
		The rationalists, these people say, deny the existence of such phenomenon because their occurrence cannot be explained with the existing human knowledge.
		With their minds free of any pre-conceived notions whatsoever the rationalists try to penetrate the unknown and try to bring more phenomenon from the sphere of unknown to that of the known.
	hindubooks.org /sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/rationalism.html (1788 words)

	KnoxNews: Columnists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Rationalists are promoting a National Day of Reason "to raise public awareness about the persistent threat to religious liberty posed by government intrusion into the private sphere of worship." Actually, the Rationalists instigated a Day of Reason on the first Thursday in May in hopes of silencing the National Day of Prayer.
		Rationalists of East Tennessee and organizations like Atheists Alliance International and Internet Infidels spitefully endorsed today as a Day of Reason to intimidate government officials into either recognizing a Day of Reason or not recognizing a Day of Prayer.
		Rationalists of East Tennessee use semantic gymnastics to pass themselves off as benign promoters of free thought and critical thinking.
	www4.knoxnews.com /kns/opinion_columnists/article/0,1406,KNS_364_3752468,00.html (575 words)

	The Hindu : Karnataka / Mangalore News : Rationalists refute politicians' claim
		The Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations has refuted the allegations from a section of political parties in the State that rationalists were doing nothing to expose "the so-called faith healers.''
		Addressing presspersons here, the federation president, Narendra Nayak, said rationalists in the country were exposing the "skills'' of such faith healers for the past many years.
		Nayak said the rationalists were also challenging those persons who claimed that they would cure cancers and AIDS.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2005/01/21/stories/2005012115540300.htm (227 words)

	GN Online: Rationalists doubt Teresa's miracle
		The Missionaries of Charity is ignoring the controversy raised by a former Marxist minister and rationalists in Kolkata that Mother Teresa was not a miracle worker.
		Prabir Ghosh, general secretary of the Kolkata-based Science and Rationalist Assoc-iation of India, said yesterday that Mother Teresa was being elevated to sainthood for all the wrong reasons.
		The Vatican rejected claims by the rationalists that its attribution of a miracle to Mother Teresa was based on "lies".
	www.gulf-news.com /Articles/print.asp?ArticleID=65138 (251 words)

	Immanuel Kant -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The Rationalist project was doomed to failure because it did not take note of the contribution that our faculty of reason makes to our experience of objects.
		The Rationalists had similarly conflated the four terms and mistakenly proceeded as if claims like, "The self is a simple substance," could be proven analytically and a priori.
		According to the Rationalist and Empiricist traditions, the mind is passive either because it finds itself possessing innate, well-formed ideas ready for analysis, or because it receives ideas of objects into a kind of empty theater, or blank slate.
	www.iep.utm.edu /k/kantmeta.htm (9445 words)

	Rationalism and the Mind/Body Controversy
		For the rationalists, the acquisition of knowledge via intellectual reason was to acquire a purely reasonable source of information.
		As a rationalist, to affirm a claim that "X is true" means "X is true such that ~X is impossible." For example, a triangle necessarily has three sides.
		I shall discuss here how the Rationalists engaged the mind/body controversy and what their solutions mean for us today.
	sguthrie.net /rationalism.htm (3033 words)

	Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle: Blackburn v. Rationalists
		...the kinds of [rationalist] argument [against expressivism or sentimentalism] I have been discussing, are very deep-rooted.
		We think instead that human beings are ruled by passions, and the best we can do it to educate people so that the best passions are also the most forceful.
		We say of rationalistic moral philosophy what Hume says of abstract reasonings in general, that when we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night on the appearance of the morning.
	willwilkinson.net /flybottle/archives/2005/03/blackburn_v_rat.html (687 words)

	Indian Rationalists Doubt Mother Teresa's Miracle
		, India (Reuters) - A group of Indian rationalists challenged Tuesday a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa that has put her on the path to sainthood and called for a government inquiry into whether it took place.
		Last week, the Congregation for the Causes of Saints at the Vatican said the disappearance of a tumor in an Indian woman, Monica Bersa, was due to a miracle by the Albanian-born founder of the Calcutta-based Missionaries of Charity.
		Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.
	www.rense.com /general30/terr.htm (323 words)

	BrothersJudd Blog: CRYPTO-THEOLOGIES OF THE RATIONALISTS:
		While not sharing the optimism of those rationalists who held that future progress towards an even higher spiritual level was inevitable, his hierarchy of values never ceased to be shaped by the traditional view.
		In place of the view of human beings which saw them existing in harmonious, rational integration, Swift reasserted the traditional Christian view according to which they were profoundly divided between their rational souls and their carnal bodies.
		Many of the most influential rationalist thinkers seemed determined to forget that men and women had ever possessed such things as bodies and all those animal impulses and appetites with which bodies are associated.
	www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/019575.html (3012 words)

	Quodlibet Online Journal: Rationalism and the Historical Mind/Body Controversy - by Shandon L Guthrie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the rationalists, the acquisition of knowledge via intellectual reason was to acquire a purely reasonable source of information.
		I shall discuss here how the Rationalists have historically engaged the mind/body controversy and what their interaction means for us today.
		While these and other Rationalist thinkers do not adhere to the definitions that Descartes has afforded, their objections (when simplified) result in the outworking of each’s preestablished world view.
	www.quodlibet.net /guthrie-rationalism.shtml (3724 words)

	Fake astrologer falls into rationalists’ trap - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The ‘authenticity’ of the astrologer was made public when the person none other than Rationalist Dr Narendra Nayak walked into Joshi’s office along with a dozen media persons including the BBC crew.
		Though rationalist movement was picking up in coastal region, there were equal number of people who were falling prey to such people, he opines.
		Dr Nayak, the secretary for the Dakshina Kannada Rationalist Association, so far had conducted more than 1,500 such demonstrations all over India to expose the myths behind the so-called miracles and debunk superstitions.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/mar282004/d6.asp (463 words)

	Politics, Economics and Social Science
		Their silence raises doubts about whether the rationalists are all they claim to be.
		The alternative explanation is that, for the most part, the economic rationalists are just a bunch of right-wingers, who instinctively sympathise with capital over labour, are big on individual freedom and hate paying taxes.
		So where are the rationalists patiently explaining to the misguided Professor Garnaut and his Productivity Commission supporters that their fears are unfounded, that bilateralism is just a ploy to advance multilateralism and that the Americans can be trusted to act in the interests of the world, not just themselves?
	www.cse.unsw.edu.au /~norman/SOCIAL.html (9305 words)

	The Independent Sunday (London, England): In search of... Rationalists in Como; Buildings made of reinforced concrete ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Rationalists in Como; Buildings made of reinforced concrete overlooking one of Italy's loveliest lakes?
		During the Twenties and Thirties, Lake Como was the unlikely hub for a revolutionary architectural movement, razionalismo, which rebelled against ongoing revivalist movements such as neoclassicism.
		Like their contemporaries Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, the Italian rationalists put function above form in their designs and embraced the use of new construction techniques and materials.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:107982016&refid=holomed_1 (206 words)

	Indian Rationalists question mother Teresa’s ovarian miracle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The rationalists, who have kicked off the controversy about Mother Teresa’s after-death-miracle, demand that the government of West Bengal take the Missionaries of Charity to court for their false claims.
		If this obvious fraud is not brought to book and if the idea of miraculous healings gets credence, it will have dangerous consequences for the uneducated and the poor, insists Indian Rationalist Association.
		Confidence in modern medicine and science has to be developed and strengthened and people have to be encouraged to use available medical facilities for treatment instead of taking to superstition and miracle belief.
	www.rationalistinternational.net /article/se_en_14102002.htm (900 words)

	Rationalists in the Pub
		New Humanist magazine are keen to foster intelligent discourse on a wide range of subjects, emphasising the rational and humanist approach to tackling issues and solving problems.
		We like a drink too and so have founded "Rationalists in the Pub".
		Held once a month (usually on the third Tuesday) in a central london pub starting at 7.30pm.
	www.rationalist.org.uk /press/ritp.shtml (226 words)

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