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causalist en · NOUN

Etymology

From causal + -ist.

Meanings

  1. A proponent of causalism
    • The causalist cannot explain what determines the extensions of our terms without introducing some internal classifying notion, while the descriptivist arguably has been after this kind of reference determining classifying notion all the time. 2007 May 31, Jussi Wiljami Jylkkä, “Theories of natural kind term reference and empirical psychology”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 2, →DOI:

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