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It is in solving the Sphinx's riddle and in conducting the murder investigation that Oedipus demonstrates rationalism in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).

Specifically, rationalism refers to the use of reason in accumulating and applying knowledge. Oedipus relies on reason in order to figure out the answer to the Sphinx's riddle of what life form moves on fours in the morning of life, on twos in the afternoon, and on threes in the evening. He also depends upon reason to sort his way through the royal investigation into the unsolved murder of Theban King Laius. For example, he checks every lead no matter how involved or uncomfortable.

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