rationalist
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It looked like a semantic quibble but in these circles, it was a serious accusation, one that drew rebuke even from Elmore’s husband, Ronny Fernandez, a rationalist and self-described “unlicensed philosopher.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
In 2022, a warrant was issued when Lasota failed to show up for a court hearing, related to the protest outside the rationalist organisation meeting.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 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
Pollini told me he was influenced by his father’s rationalist architecture and even more so by his uncle, the noted sculptor Fausto Melotti.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
There is a puzzle here, because the standard alternative to voluntarism is rationalism, and a rationalist would hold that the laws of nature, like the laws of mathematics, exist because they are necessary.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The young man was part of a loose network called the Zizians: self-proclaimed rationalists who believe a misaligned AI superintelligence could one day torture humanity the way factory farms torture animals.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 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
