Rationalism (disambiguation)
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Rationalism may refer to:
- RationalismRationalismIn epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" . In more technical terms, it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive"...
, a philosophical position, theory, or view that reason is the source of knowledge - Rationalism (theology), same philosophical theory applied in theology, contrary to revelation
- Critical rationalismCritical rationalismCritical rationalism is an epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Popper. Popper wrote about critical rationalism in his works, The Open Society and its Enemies Volume 2, and Conjectures and Refutations.- Criticism, not support :...
, an epistemological philosophy advanced by Karl Raimund Popper - Rational choice theoryRational choice theoryRational choice theory, also known as choice theory or rational action theory, is a framework for understanding and often formally modeling social and economic behavior. It is the main theoretical paradigm in the currently-dominant school of microeconomics...
, a common approach to explaining actor behavior in the social sciences - Economic rationalismEconomic rationalismEconomic rationalism is an Australian term in discussion of microeconomic policy, applicable to the economic policy of many governments around the world, in particular during the 1980s and 1990s....
, an Australian term in discussion of microeconomic policy - Rationalism (architecture)Rationalism (architecture)The intellectual principles of rationalism are based on architectural theory. Vitruvius had already established in his work De Architectura that architecture is a science that can be comprehended rationally. This formulation was taken up and further developed in the architectural treatises of the...
, an architectural theory - Rationalization (sociology)Rationalization (sociology)Rationalization is a term used in sociology to refer to a process in which an increasing number of social actions become based on considerations of teleological efficiency or calculation rather than on motivations derived from morality, emotion, custom, or tradition...
, a process whereby social actions and interactions become based on considerations of efficiency or calculation rather than on custom, tradition, or emotion - Pancritical rationalismPancritical rationalismPancritical rationalism , also called Comprehensively Critical Rationalism , is a development of critical rationalism and panrationalism originated by William Warren Bartley in his book The Retreat to Commitment...
, a theory by William Warren Bartley developed from panrationalism and critical rationalism - Rationalism (politics), a political perspective on the international system