rationalistically

What is a minute ago, rationalistically considered, except a tradition and a picture?

Men take thought and ponder rationalistically, touching remote things-- things that only theoretically matter, such as the transit of Venus.

Indeed, Plato rationalistically condemned sense-experience, whereas subjective idealism presupposed empiricism and the irreducible reality of sense data.

His conception of civil association as a form of moral association and his idea of jus of lex should not therefore be viewed rationalistically.

Beginning with the Saadia Gaon, several Jewish commentators started to explain these taboos rationalistically; Said himself expresses an argument similar to that of totemism, that the unclean animals were declared so because they were worshipped by other cultures.