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rationalist (plural rationalists)

1. (philosophy) A person who follows the philosophy of rationalism.
   • 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:

     “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.”

2. A member of the rationalist community.
   • 2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 45:

     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).

反意語

• irrationalist
• traditionalist

派生語

アナグラム

• striational