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
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
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
I thought about all those who had denounced the popes and the church they headed before him: the sans culottes, the guillotinists, the tricoteuses; all the rationalists, the Marxists, the humanists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 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 fact is that human behavior is often driven by forces much deeper than economic and political self-interest, at least as Western rationalists typically understand these things.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2022
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
