Citations:speculationism


 * sense 1
 * 1965, Translations on People's Republic of China:
 * If we neglect market control of any item, if we neglect management or if it is not done well, we then give a chance to speculationism and spontaneous capitalism.
 * 1976, Japan Interpreter:
 * That's not capitalism, socialism, or communism either. It's just “land-speculationism.”
 * sense 2
 * 1978, Rajender Kumar Garg, Upaniṣadic Challenge to Science:
 * This being the case, it is not fair to charge the Upanişadic philosophy with barren speculationism. It is as much practical as any philosophy can reasonably be conceived of.
 * 1986, Al-Tawḥīd:
 * who was its most systematic exponent and was at once free from the simplism and literalism of orthodox scholars on the one hand and the speculationism and the muddle-headedness of the philosophers on the other.
 * 1996, Brad Miner, The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia:
 * It is not reason, per se, that is denigrated in the critique of rationalism, but what Burke, its first and greatest critic, called “speculationism.” Burke's and conservatism's case against rationalism was nicely summed up in the observation of Blaise Pascal ...