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
Yudkowsky’s acolytes grew into the rationalist movement, a group of brainy, often libertarian-leaning outsiders who revel in logical debate.
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
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
Coxon after college fell in with a small but influential community of rationalists seeking to remake the British government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 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
