## [META] What is the difference between Rational fiction and Rationalist fiction?

* Author: u/None *
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* Score: 1

* Created: 2016-05-04T17:17:41

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### Comments:

> **u/b_sen** [+3]  (11 minutes later)
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> See the characteristics further up on the sidebar.
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> Alternatively:  Rational fiction holds that no character or group thereof may be given an Idiot Ball or a The-Plot-Demands-It Ball.  Rationalist fiction additionally encourages its readers to think rationally.  These principles generate the rules on the sidebar.

> **u/FuguofAnotherWorld** [+3]  *Roll the Dice on Fate* (12 minutes later)
> 
> That info is also on the side bar? Unless you want to start a discussion on how the terms rational and rationalist fiction may have shifted since the creation of the community.

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