Causalist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From causal + -ist.

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