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   rationalist

   /ˈraʃənəlɪst/

   noun

   • 1. a person who bases their opinions and actions on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response: "the managers are rationalists who find it hard to understand why anyone should get worked up about the closure of their local hospital"
   • ▪ a person who believes that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge: "like other rationalists, he valorizes the mind over the body"
   • ▪ a person who considers reason to be the ultimate authority in religion: "the dispassionate sensibility of Protestant rationalists"

   adjective

   • 1. based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response: "a rationalist approach to the supernatural"
   • ▪ relating to the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge: "Harvard College had become a seat of rationalist philosophy"
   • ▪ relating to the practice of treating reason as the ultimate authority in religion: "Toland's unrelentingly rationalist approach to theology went well beyond anything Locke advocated"

   Derivatives

   • 1. rationalistic adjective
   • 2. rationalistically adverb

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