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Most self-identified as Rationalists, Empiricists, or Transhumanists.
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Most self-identified as Rationalists, Empiricists, or Transhumanists.
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If it does, the 'Rationalists' are right; it is not illicit to reason from the one to the other.
The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845
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He promised me significantly an entertainment, in which I should enjoy the "feast of reason and the flow of soul," by which I little thought that he was going to collect a rare party of "Rationalists" and "Spiritualists," in fact, representatives of all the more prominent forms, whether of belief or unbelief.
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic Henry Rogers 1841
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"'Those who are generally termed Rationalists,' says Dr. Bretschneider,
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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Rationalists tend to be intelligent and intellectual; and intellegent intellectuals tend to be socialists.
MRV update, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Rationalists can take heart; anyone who has had a back spasm is familiar with the intimacy between musculature and nerves.
The Way We Ail Now Lionel Shriver 2011
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Rationalists and technocrats dismiss this atavism, but it is a powerful thing, probably the very reason pre-modern societies had monarchies in the first place.
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Unfortunately, the Rationalists seem to be treating the most effective anecdote to pollution -- a carbon fee -- as a secondary measure to the preferred system, Cap and Trade.
Allison Kilkenny: Krugman Endorses The Next Great Bubble Machine: Cap And Trade 2009
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Then there are the Rationalists and Empiricists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Worldshaker Richard Harland 2009
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