rationalist

Example Sentences

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“For us to conclude that a law of 160 years’ vintage, with this kind of empirical pedigree, has all along been both unnecessary and improper, would border on rationalist conceit.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

A well-known rationalist, Narlikar also took it upon himself to challenge pseudoscience.

From BBC • May 23, 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

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