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• n  someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes
• a  of or relating to or characteristic of rationalism
  rationalist philosophy

• AGE: 66 OCCUPATION: Evolutionist, author, Oxford University professor NUMBER OF PTI COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE PTI 100: 0 PRO: Adamant rationalist and .
• Those who "forget" the decisive contributions of rationalist Muslim thinkers like al-Farabi (10th century), Avicenna (11th century), Averroes (12th century), al-Ghazali (12th .
• In essence, Castaneda's books are the story of how a European rationalist was initiated into the practice of Indian sorcery.

• positivist

News & Articles

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• The insidious rise of truthers, birthers, and deniers
  Hassan Rouhani's comments on the Holocaust are part of a bigger pattern: the denier masquerading as rationalist        
  Sept. 26, 2013 - Salon.com
• Theater Review: Ethan Coen's Women Or Nothing
  The premise of Ethan Coen 's first full-length play Women or Nothing is nothing extraordinary. Two women—a very successful concert pianist named Laura (Susan Pourfar) and a lawyer named Gretchen (Halley Feiffer)—desire a child, but differ on the means. Laura, an uptight rationalist who happens to be the only one in the relationship capable of reproducing, favors artificial insemination, but ...
  Sept. 25, 2013 - Gothamist

Quotes

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• Timothy Garton Ash in The Guardian
  Timothy Garton Ash, a friend and confidant for 30 years, says "the idea put about of the young Ian being open to mysticism and the like, as opposed to the hard-edged scientific rationalist of today, is just nonsense. He's always been supremely...
• Bill Leonard in Dallas Baptist Standard
  Only by ignoring all this and much more can the claim of human progress at the end of history be maintained: 'If ever there was a pious myth and a piece of credulous superstition, it is the liberal-rationalist belief that, a few hiccups apart, we... Stanley Fish http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fish&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGmQIDc8z-PMvd8x2awh5ayxDRZ-Q Oregon Daily Emerald http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/2009/05/08/Opinion/Meet-In.The.Middle-3738875.shtml&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFCOuC_zyWSv3q527RHvCE28of-Jg May 7, 2009 80430 108440 rationalist The battle with modernity raged on American soil about a century ago, when Protestant fundamentalism resisted the liberal modernist effort to change theology in light of new scientific and rationalist theses," said Bill Leonard, a church...