Talk:Rationalism (disambiguation)

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"Rationalism, a philosophical position, theory, or view that reason is the source of knowledge in contrast to emotions or beliefs." Replaced using senses with "emotions or beliefs".

Reason: The sentence was faulty. There is no opposition between being rational and using your senses, in fact, you need to both use your senses to gain information and think, (process the information) in a rational manner. Earlier versions of this page had emotions there instead of using your senses, and that was correct.

By the way, so many revisions of this article without a single word on the discussion page, why? Maybe because the earlier editors did not really believe in reason and rationality, which means solving problems through discussions. People driven by strong convictions, emotions or beliefs see no reason for discussion, they feel like they already know everything they need to know, and it is also a defence mechanism. Discussions could threaten their strong beliefs, state of mind or emotions. Roger491127 (talk) 07:54, 13 January 2008 (UTC)