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Comment author: satt 22 June 2011 05:36:53AM 0 points [-]

Like many others I don't care much for the word 'rationalist', since it comes with lots of preexisting negative connotations.

I kind of like that. A term that starts out with some negative connotations is less likely to be co-opted or overloaded.