The Church's long-standing dogma was losing the great battle for the truth to rationalists and scientists.

在这场为真理而战的伟大斗争中，存在已久的教会教条输给了理性主义者和科学家。

Rationalists are Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza.

理性主义者有笛卡尔，莱布尼兹和斯宾诺莎。

Rationalists had much to say about knowledge and how one might gain certainty.

理性主义有很多要说的知识和如何可能获得确定性。

For rationalists, emotions are not a satisfactory explanation for how markets work.

对于理性主义者，情绪并非对市场运作的令人满意的解释。

rationalists believe the markets will come up with their own mechanisms for managing risk.

理性主义者相信市场会为他们自己的风险管理机制了。

And I have said, the simplistic distinction between empiricists and rationalists really can be misleading.

我已经说过，简单地区分经验主义者和理性主义者，是很容易误导的。

The rationalists' conviction is based on the mathematical model they use to understand the financial markets.

在理性主义者的信念是基于数学模型，他们利用了解金融市场。

For many readers of this newspaper, descendents of the Enlightenment and rationalists all, such a view might seem self-evident.

对本报的很多读者来讲，这个观点是不言自明的，因为他们都是文化启明运动和理性主义的后裔。

So crucial were they for rationalists that it was usually held that these ideas were the prerequisite for learning additional facts.

因此，关键是他们的理性主义，这是通常认为，这些想法是为前提的学习更多的事实。

Although this query was answered somewhat differently, most rationalists eventually got back to the assertion that God was the ultimate guarantee of knowledge.

虽然这个查询回答有所不同，大多数理性主义终于回到断言，上帝是最终保障知识。

Traditional ideas of the metaphysical ontology are rejected by the scientific and logical positivists like Comte but accepted by critical rationalists represented by Popper.

传统的思辨的形而上学本体论受到孔德科学实证主义和后来逻辑实证主义的拒斥，但波普的批判理性主义不排斥它。

The growth of the Internet means that by the next election there may be half a million scientists, sceptics and rationalists writing to their MPs about their record and their intentions.

网上的增长意味着在下次选举前可能有50万科学家、怀疑论者和理性主义者告诉他们的议员自己的意向。

Under this background, modern western philosophy has also being affected deeply by mathematics, and these impacts are embodied in philosophical thoughts of rationalists: Descartes and Spinoza.

在这个背景下，西方近代哲学也深受数学的影响，这些影响突出地表现在理性主义哲学家笛卡尔和斯宾诺莎两人的哲学思想上。