rationalist
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But inside the brain trusts of Silicon Valley, billions of investor dollars and years of tortured rationalist arguments are clouding a similar argument about artificial intelligence.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 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
A well-known rationalist, Narlikar also took it upon himself to challenge pseudoscience.
From BBC ● May 23, 2025
Intriguingly, a few informal but large surveys from the rationalist community suggest that both complete monogamy and complete polyamory tend to be more satisfying than the “monogamish” middle ground.
From Slate ● May 5, 2024
But then it was José Arcadio Buendía who took the lead and tried to break down the priest's faith with rationalist tricks.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Coxon after college fell in with a small but influential community of rationalists seeking to remake the British government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
This represents one of the oldest debates in human thought: rationalists vs. empiricists.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2025
Lasota began blogging using the alias "Ziz", but soon fell out with mainstream rationalists as her writings spun off in bizarre directions.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
They include atheists, agnostics, the culturally religious but not observant, rationalists and the spiritual but not religious.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2023
The existence of this romantic tendency constitutes at least a small part of the emotional makeup of most mathematicians, and is perhaps surprising to those who think of mathematicians as cold rationalists.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
