I see their description as set up against the definition of rationalist, so an eliminative description that says more about what it is not than what it is.
Like “non-Evangelical Protestant”, a label can be useful even if it’s defined as “member of this big cluster but not a member of this or that major subcluster”. It can even have more unity on many features than the big cluster does.
I see their description as set up against the definition of rationalist, so an eliminative description that says more about what it is not than what it is.
Like “non-Evangelical Protestant”, a label can be useful even if it’s defined as “member of this big cluster but not a member of this or that major subcluster”. It can even have more unity on many features than the big cluster does.