Levelism
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The political aim of levelling all distinctions of rank in society; egalitarianism. uncountable
"Supposing the charge exhibited against governments, under the national control, to be true; and admitting that they do tend towards levelism; it would then become necessary to compute, which species of levelism, that of dividing property between three orders according to Mr. Adams's system, or that of dividing property among all the individuals of a nation according to the supposed tendency, would product the most injustice or misery."
- 2 The use of different levels of abstraction in order to understand something. uncountable
"Reality can be studied at different levels, so forms of 'levelism' have often been advocated in the past. In the 1970s, levelism nicely doevetailed with the computational turn and became a standard approach both in science and philosophy."
Example
More examples"Supposing the charge exhibited against governments, under the national control, to be true; and admitting that they do tend towards levelism; it would then become necessary to compute, which species of levelism, that of dividing property between three orders according to Mr. Adams's system, or that of dividing property among all the individuals of a nation according to the supposed tendency, would product the most injustice or misery."
Etymology
From level + -ism.
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