those analogists that determine from the Commands about the Mosaical Rites and usages what must be done or may not be done about the meer positive worship and Church-order of the New Testament
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Analogist
Synonyms for "analogist" (7 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
analogy makeranalogy practitioner
Strong matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
analogy researcheranalogy specialist
Related words (3)
Noun(3 words)
Choosing the right synonym
- Closest matches in this entry: analogy maker, analogy practitioner, analogy researcher, analogy specialist, analogy theorist.
- Sentence evidence is available for analogist, so synonym choice can be checked against real usage rather than a flat word list.
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Synonym selection checklist
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- Check whether the synonym changes intensity, formality, or emotional tone.
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When not to replace "analogist"
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If two options seem close, choose the one that best matches the audience and purpose of the sentence.
Replacement workflow
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6 entriesanalogist approachanalogist argumentanalogist methodologyanalogist rhetoricanalogist scholarshipanalogy based reasoning
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5 total sentences available.
The analogist does not think that a bee, a flower and a human are the same in body nor in soul, but presupposes that all of them are affected by processes that are not only external to them, but frame and enable their possibilities of daily experience.
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This kind of practice, together with its extension in Chinese cosmology to everything from bodily organs to emotions to animal kinds to colours to flavours to kin relations to positions in the overall social hierarchy, suggests for Descola that the world is perceived by analogists as fundamentally being made up of myriad ontological singularities, defined in terms of discontinuities on the level of both physicality and interiority.
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This is what characterises his 'analogist' mode, and indeed, he takes China as a paradigmatic example of an analogist society,
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Common questions
What are the closest synonyms for "analogist"?
Closest matches include analogy maker, analogy practitioner, analogy researcher, analogy specialist, analogy theorist.
How should I check whether a synonym fits "analogist"?
Compare the replacement against real sentence context. This entry includes sample sentences so you can check tone, grammar, and meaning before swapping words.