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
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
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
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
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
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 crowdfunded online journal, which Lehmann launched from her home in Sydney in 2015, has gained a major following among aggrieved rationalists, oppressed contrarians, and sundry other stifled surfers of the Intellectual Dark Web.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019
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
