rationalist
- a word derived from rationalism.
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
Jessica Taylor, an artificial intelligence researcher who says she knew several of the group members, told the Associated Press that Lasota and the Zizians stretched their rationalist beliefs to justify breaking laws.
From BBC • Feb. 20, 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
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
