1. rationalist - Noun
2. rationalist - Adjective
One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYour strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge. Eliezer Yudkowsky
When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way. John Banville
[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism. Ernest Gellner
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a myth for the credulous - poets and honeymooners. Mary McCarthy
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future. Garrett Hardin
By one road or another, by conviction, by its supposed inevitability, by its alleged success, or even quite unreflectively, almost all politics today have become Rationalist or near-Rationalist. Michael Oakeshott