rationalist
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1. rationalist - Noun
2. rationalist - Adjective
Meaning
One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.
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Your 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.
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.
[I am a humble adherent of]...Enlightenment Rationalist Fundamentalism.
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.
A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.
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.