Rationalist

Synonyms for "rationalist" (30 found)

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Closest matches (6)

Adjective(2 words)
cartesianclassical philosophy

Strong matches (9)

Noun(6 words)
Adjective(3 words)
huxleianleibnizianlogical thinker

Related words (15)

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More general

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descriptorintellectualmethodologynonreligious personphilosophical term

More specific

7 entries
axiomatic methoddeductive frameworkmoral rationalistphilosophical rationalistrationalist epistemologyrationalist ethicsscientific rationalist

Collocations

10 entries
epistemic rationalistlogical rationalistmodern rationalistrationalist approachrationalist argumentrationalist critiquerationalist methodrationalist philosopherrationalist philosophyrationalist tradition

Inflections

3 entries
more rationalistmost rationalistrationalists

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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“He says,” replied Lord Peter, “that he believes Hannah to be a sincerely religious woman. He has sat beside her in chapel and shared her hymn-book.” “But that may be the merest hypocrisy,” said Miss Murchison, rather warmly, for she was militantly rationalist. “I don’t trust these unctuous people.”

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Some rationalists were in touch with Oxford philosophers, including Toby Ord and William MacAskill, the founders of the effective-altruism movement, which studied how to do the most good for humanity (and, by extension, how to avoid ending it).

Source: wiktionary

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