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analogist

analogist noun: someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.

Noun

analogist (plural analogists)

  1. Someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.
    • 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 Testament1654, John Tombes, Anti-pædobaptism
  2. An adherent of analogism.
    • 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.2021, Andrew M. Davis, Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy, page 118
    • 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...2021, William Matthews, Cosmic Coherence, page 38

Adjective

analogist (comparative more analogist, superlative most analogist)

  1. Pertaining to analogism, as opposed to anomalism.
  2. Pertaining to analogism.
    • This is what characterises his 'analogist' mode, and indeed, he takes China as a paradigmatic example of an analogist society,2021, William Matthews, Cosmic Coherence, page 38
    • The analogist disposition treats difference not just as a demagogic commitment to "democratic diversity," but as a true metaphysical condition of things that needs to be a relevant factor for any epistemically virtuous philosophy.2021, Andrew M. Davis, Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy, page 118

analogist meaning in Tamil and Urdu

analogist in Tamil

ஒப்புமை காண்பவர், உவமையைப் பயன்படுத்துபவர், ஒப்புமை நாடுபவர், சொற்களில் பொருள் ஒப்பு நாடுபவர்

analogist in Urdu

تَمثیل پَسَند, مماثلت پَسَند

Forms of analogist

Noun
pluralanalogists
Adjective
comparativemore analogist
superlativemost analogist

Origin of analogist

From analogy + -ist.

Questions about analogist

What does analogist mean?
Analogist means someone who makes an analogy, or represents something using an analogy.
What is analogist in Tamil?
Analogist in Tamil is ஒப்புமை காண்பவர், உவமையைப் பயன்படுத்துபவர், ஒப்புமை நாடுபவர். See Analogist meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is analogist?
Analogist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of analogist?
The plural of analogist is analogists.

Words near analogist in the dictionary

  1. analogised
  2. analogises
  3. analogising
  4. analogism
  5. analogisms
  6. analogist
  7. analogistic
  8. analogists
  9. analogizable
  10. analogization
  11. analogizations

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