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  • noun Plural form of rationalist.

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  • The minority that is what I would call rationalists, that is people who don't believe in something supernatural, something that was obviously fables that were written by men before men knew what a germ or an atom was.

    CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2008 2008

  • The minority that is what I would call rationalists, that is people who don't believe in something supernatural, something that was obviously fables that were written by men before men knew what a germ or an atom was.

    CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2008 2008

  • Note, the spiritualism of rationalists is very different.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • So, yes, I would like to say to the atheists and agnostics, the people who I call rationalists, let's stop ceding the moral high ground to the people who believe in the talking snake.

    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan 2008

  • So, yes, I would like to say to the atheists and agnostics, the people who I call rationalists, let's stop ceding the moral high ground to the people who believe in the talking snake.

    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan 2008

  • So, yes, I would like to say to the atheists and agnostics, the people who I call rationalists, let's stop ceding the moral high ground to the people who believe in the talking snake.

    Salon 2008

  • So, yes, I would like to say to the atheists and agnostics, the people who I call rationalists, let's stop ceding the moral high ground to the people who believe in the talking snake.

    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan 2008

  • So, yes, I would like to say to the atheists and agnostics, the people who I call rationalists, let's stop ceding the moral high ground to the people who believe in the talking snake.

    The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan 2008

  • Chief among the rationalists is the acting-troupe leader's wife, a sensitive but clear-minded woman who insists: This is not a play, this is real.

    Stains of Blood on New-Fallen Snow 2011

  • The principal Aristotelian concept taken over by the rationalists was the concept of substance.

    Continental Rationalism Lennon, Thomas M. 2007

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