0 someone whose actions and decisions are based on reason rather than emotions or beliefs --
1 relating to or believing in rationalism (= the belief that actions and ideas should be based on reason rather than emotion): --
In the 18th century, the rationalist philosophy of David Hume was influential across Europe.
It is not an easy fit, of course, with rationalist or statistical approaches to social movement analysis.
Here it was the rationalists who proved particularly problematic.
I will call them the rationalist and the empirical.
This rationalist view, where knowledge transcended human experience and sense perception, consisted of frameworks of concepts, procedures and rules.
The possibility of error means the failure of the universal rationalist system.
Through the seventeenth century, even thinkers labeled rationalist premised their arguments for toleration on promoting religious and ethical values.
The rationalist "positivistic model" of evaluation burst into being in the 1980s, because plenty of variables were not taken into account when evaluating (16;30).
These tragic, everyday occurrences remain largely inexplicable within a rationalist model of agency.
