Ersatzist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An adherent of ersatzism

    "Linguistic ersatzists hold that even if Lewis happened to be right about which hunks of stuff there are, he would still be wrong about modality."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Pertaining to or exemplifying ersatzism

Example

More examples

"Linguistic ersatzists hold that even if Lewis happened to be right about which hunks of stuff there are, he would still be wrong about modality."

Etymology

From ersatz + -ist.

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