irrationalists
Reason's sworn enemies
People who embrace or advocate irrationalism—the view that reason is not the primary or reliable path to truth, and that intuition, emotion, faith, or instinct should guide belief and action.
The term often appears in philosophical or intellectual criticism: The irrationalists rejected Enlightenment confidence in logic.
It can be dismissive when applied by rationalist critics to those they see as abandoning reason.
Those prone to nostalgia
- zealotsFanatical cause followers
- fanaticsObsessive believers
- enthusiastsPeople deeply into something
- romanticsIdealists about love
idealists · dreamers · visionaries · fervor · vehemence · ardor · pathos · emotionality
Adherents of fixed doctrines
- partisansStaunch factional supporters
- dogmatistsBelievers in fixed principles
- zealotsFanatical cause followers
- bigotsIntolerant, prejudiced people
fundamentalists · extremists · propagandists · demagogues · bias · prejudice · preconception · assumption
Purveyors of specious reasoning
- superstitiousBelieving in magical causation
- credulousProne to blind trust
- gullibleEasily deceived
- dogmatistsBelievers in fixed principles
pseudoscientists · illogic · absurdity · contradiction · paradox · nonsensical · unscientific · baseless
Spiritual insight seekers
- romanticistsBelievers in feeling's primacy
- existentialistsAuthenticity-focused philosophical school adherents
- absurdistsThose embracing life's irrationality
- nihilistsDeniers of meaning
relativists · skeptics · postmodernists · deconstructionists · traditionalists · spiritualists · transcendentalists
Claimed mind readers
- clairvoyantsThose claiming supernatural perception
- seersThose claiming foresight
- mysticsSpiritual insight seekers
- divinersThose who foretell events
prophets · sensitives · premonition · insight · foresight · intuitionism · subconscious
sentimentalists
Those prone to nostalgia
- zealotsFanatical cause followers
- fanaticsObsessive believers
- enthusiastsPeople deeply into something
romantics · idealists · dreamers · visionaries · fervor · vehemence · ardor · pathos · emotionality · caprice
ideologues
Adherents of fixed doctrines
- partisansStaunch factional supporters
- dogmatistsBelievers in fixed principles
- zealotsFanatical cause followers
bigots · fundamentalists · extremists · propagandists · demagogues · bias · prejudice · preconception · assumption · closed-minded
sophists
Purveyors of specious reasoning
- superstitiousBelieving in magical causation
- credulousProne to blind trust
- gullibleEasily deceived
dogmatists · pseudoscientists · illogic · absurdity · contradiction · paradox · nonsensical · unscientific · baseless · unfounded
mystics
Spiritual insight seekers
- romanticistsBelievers in feeling's primacy
- existentialistsAuthenticity-focused philosophical school adherents
- absurdistsThose embracing life's irrationality
nihilists · relativists · skeptics · postmodernists · deconstructionists · traditionalists · spiritualists · transcendentalists
psychics
Claimed mind readers
- clairvoyantsThose claiming supernatural perception
- seersThose claiming foresight
- mysticsSpiritual insight seekers
diviners · prophets · sensitives · premonition · insight · foresight · intuitionism · subconscious
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Advocates of reasoned thinking
logicians · empiricists · reasoners · skeptics · critical thinkers
irrationalistsKantians
Followers of duty-based ethics
utilitarians · pragmatists · positivists · Bertrand Russell · Descartes
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Philosophers favoring sensory knowledge
scientists · experimentalists · naturalists · materialists · objectivists