rationalist
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- noun
- /ˈræʃənəlɪst/
- Jargon
:
racionalista
- It's counterproductive to think that rationalists must hold a unified front.
So that's part of what he wants to point out to his fellow rationalists in this essay.
- So that's part of what he wants to point out to his fellow rationalists in this essay.
- I thought about this and I think this comes down to a repeated misunderstanding of political power by the rationalists.
Examples
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Everyone would like to have the perfect utilitarian rationalist view of the world.
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It's a party of pragmatic rationalists who find it difficult to agree on many points.
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I thought we rationalists were supposed to ask hard questions.
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Do any of you frequent rationalist or effective altruism sources?
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He's a rationalist and disagrees with you very much on some very fundamental issues.
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So that's part of what he wants to point out to his fellow rationalists in this essay.
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We're rationalists.
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Many rationalists engage in discussions to promote evidence-based reasoning.
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As a rationalist, she always seeks data to support her decisions.
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The rationalist community often debates the importance of understanding cognitive biases.
How Rational
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Rationalist comes from the Latin root ratio 'reason' or 'calculation'. A helpful way to remember the modern online rationalist is to think of people who treat beliefs like numbers to change when new facts appear, so they focus on careful, evidence-based thinking.