rationalist

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In a state where modern politics was shaped by rationalist thought and the Self-Respect Movement - which envisioned a society where marginalised castes would have equal rights - the visible turn to faith feels deliberate.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

Soprano Sydney Mancasola brought spice to Lisa, Elvino’s irritable ex-girlfriend, and bass Alexander Vinogradov was persuasive as the suspect outsider and rationalist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

His father had been dead for eight years — and he’d been a scientist and a rationalist — but there he was, trying to comfort his son.

From New York Times • May 21, 2024

When Musk declares that he is motivated by “a duty to maintain the light of consciousness,” for example, the SpaceX CEO sounds less like an enlightened rationalist than a technological shaman.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2023

On most questions Descartes is a rationalist, but as far as the laws of nature are concerned he appears to want to have it both ways.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton