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Someone who believes in accidentalism.
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One who believes in adiaphorism.
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Of or related to affirmativism.
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A proponent of aniconism.
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(philosophy) A believer in apriorism.
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A person of atavistic beliefs or habits.
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One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.
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A person who espouses authenticism
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One who subscribes to the utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham.
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One who commits the fallacy of Bulverism.
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One who believes in casualism.
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One who subscribes to the philosophy of cognitivism.
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(philosophy) A supporter of compatibilism.
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One who subscribes to the theory of computationalism.
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(philosophy) A conceptualist.
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One who subscribes to conceptionism.
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An artist involved in the conceptualism movement.
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A believer in conditionalism.
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(education) A theory of learning that focuses on the modern digital age and emphasizes the role of social and cultural context in how and where learning occurs.
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A person who adheres to the philosophy of consequentialism.
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A proponent of contemplationism.
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(philosophy) One who subscribes to contrastivism.
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(physics) One who believes in the Copenhagen interpretation.
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One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist.
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An advocate of the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant
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One who subscribes to culturalism.
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Pertaining to or characterized by dataism.
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The doctrine that moral or legal precepts are the product of decisions made by political or legal bodies
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Of or pertaining to decisionism.
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(architecture) A development of postmodern architecture that began in the late 1980s, characterized by ideas of fragmentation, an interest in manipulating ideas of a structure's surface or skin, and non-rectilinear shapes which serve to distort and dislocate.
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One who subscribes to the form of reasoning called deductivism.
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Of or relating to defaultism.
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Of or pertaining to denialism.
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An artist involved in destructivism.
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Of or supporting dualism.
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(philosophy) One who subscribes to emergentism.
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A proponent of emotivism.
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A proponent of empiriomonism.
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A proponent of epiphenomenalism.
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(metaphysics) An adherent of ersatzism
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One who holds the existence of matter to be from eternity.
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A right-wing theory of multiculturalism, supporting separatism, and according to which cultures are bound to specific geographic locations.
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One who subscribes to eventualism.
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A proponent of experientialism.
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One who subscribes to explanationism.
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(ethics) An advocate of expressivism
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(philosophy) A proponent of extensionalism.
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One who adheres to externalist beliefs
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An advocate or supporter of fallibilism
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One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity; a person who believes in fatalism.
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(philosophy) One who subscribes to fictionalism, the belief that certain concepts are simply convenient logical fictions
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the doctrine that faith is the basis of all knowledge
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(Christianity, historical) A proponent of figurism.
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Of or relating to finitism.
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(art) An adherent to the principles of the artistic movement of futurism.
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One who relies solely on scientific measurements and observable facts without taking human nature into consideration.
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(philosophy) A supporter of hard determinism.
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(education) One who prefers to learn by forming an overview of the topic.
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Characterized by attack on established and accepted beliefs, customs, or institutions; of or pertaining to iconoclasm.
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Hostility to images as objects of worship.
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One who holds to ignosticism.
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(philosophy) Relating to incompatibilism
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One who believes the doctrine of indeterminism.
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One who subscribes to inductivism.
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One who accepts infallibilism (any sense).
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Relating to infinitism.
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One who believes in infusionism.
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(philosophy) A supporter of innatism.
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Of, pertaining to, or following institutionalism
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(philosophy) An adherent of instrumentalism.
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(philosophy) A supporter of internalism
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Relating to interpretationism.
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A school of cultural anthropological thought founded by Franz Boas.
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One who holds the doctrine of intuitionalism.
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A person who studies intuitionistic mathematics
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Relating to invariantism
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(philosophy) A supporter of ironism.
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One who studies jurisprudence.
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(philosophy) A proponent of justificationism.
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(philosophy) A posited person who holds Saul Kripke's unfaithful interpretations of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy
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(philosophy) An adherent of the logical positivism school of philosophy
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(philosophy) An adherent of logicism.
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(ethics, philosophy) A believer or follower of longtermism (“an ethical stance which gives priority to improving the long-term future”).
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(art, literature, music) A person with maximalist beliefs or tendencies; someone who prefers redundancy or excess, especially in the arts.
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(philosophy) A believer in mindism.
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One who believes in or seeks a minimal state; one who seeks to minimize or reduce to a minimum.
adj
Of or pertaining to modalism.
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A religious movement in the early 20th century, condemned as heretical by Pope Pius X, which tried to reconcile Roman Catholic dogma with modern science and philosophy.
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In agreement with the philosophy of nativism.
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(historical) A person who studied natural philosophy
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(politics, law) The belief in natural law.
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Someone who advocates naïve realism.
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Of or pertaining to necessity or necessitarianism: opposed to libertarian. The Arminian has entangled the Calvinist, the Calvinist has entangled the Arminian, in a labyrinth of contradictions. The advocate of free-will appeals to conscience and instinct — to an a priori sense of what ought in equity to be. The necessitarian falls back upon the experienced reality of facts. Froude, Calvinism. (The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911).
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An adherent of neorealism
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Of or relating to nihilism.
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An advocate of objectivism.
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(education) An approach to learning that focuses on the individual learner interacting with other people.
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Relating to, or exhibiting, permissivism.
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(philosophy) An advocate of personalism
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(philosophy) A believer in personism.
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(philosophy) The belief that values can be simultaneously antagonistic and incommensurable.
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A proponent of poptimism.
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(law) A school of thought in jurisprudence in which the law is seen as separated from moral values; i.e. the law is posited by lawmakers (humans).
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(philosophy) Someone who neither hopes without reason, nor fears without reason. Someone who uses analysis of data to understand the relative probability of future possibilities, instead of relying on intuition, emotions, personal experience, dogma, superstition, mainstream thought, or mental models (e.g., pessimism or optimism).
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Having no rigid class structure (in a society that previously had one).
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(philosophy) Of or pertaining to postcolonialism.
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One who studies or produces works in postconceptualism.
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Pertaining to or characteristic of a style of analysis moving beyond deconstructionism.
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An adherent of postempiricism.
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(sociology) The transformation of individual values from materialist, physical and economic to those of autonomy and self-expression.
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Relating to postmaterialism.
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Relating to poststructuralism.
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One who subscribes to potentialism.
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One who focuses on what is practical rather than theory or ideals.
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One who acts in a practical or straightforward manner; one who is pragmatic; one who values practicality or pragmatism.
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One who imposes precepts.
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One who believes in predestination.
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Of or pertaining to presentism; viewing the past with a perspective limited to present-day attitudes and beliefs.
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(theology) A school of Christian apologetics that presumes Christian faith is the only basis for rational thought.
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One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a person is bound to do that which is most probably right.
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(theology, philosophy) A follower of probabilism.
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One who is on probation.
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One who favours a qualitative approach.
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One who favours a quantitative approach.
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A proponent of radical empiricism.
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A proponent of randomized trials as the optimal form of research.
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(philosophy) An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.
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One who believes in reconstructivism
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One who adheres to reflectivism.
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An algebraist who specializes in representation theory
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(philosophy) A subscriber to the philosophy of representationalism.
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One who subscribes to the philosophy of representationism.
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Relating to restrictivism.
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One who practices sacramentalism.
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(philosophy) Synonym of compatibilism
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(philosophy) Synonym of compatibilist
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(philosophy) An adherent of or a specialist in the study of the philosophical doctrines of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677).
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One who subscribes to subjectivism
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(philosophy) One who believes that justice involves everybody having sufficient resources for their needs, rather than the overall situation being as good as possible.
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(physics) A proponent of superdeterminism.
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Of or pertaining to supersessionism.
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Skepticism about the benefits of modern technology.
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One who subscribes to the idea of teleologism.
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(logic) A proponent of trivialism, the metaphysical and logical theory that all propositions are true.
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(mathematics) A form of finitism that is even more extreme in that it denies those constructs whose construction cannot be physically performed (such as a number that no human could have time to calculate).
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Someone who practices or advocates utilitarianism.
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(uncommon) One who subscribes to the philosophy of utilitarianism.
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(philosophy) A person who subscribes to the philosophy of Voltaire.
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