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artifactualism

artifactualism noun: a worldview which treats (something) as primarily or exclusively an artifact.

Noun

artifactualism

  1. A worldview which treats (something) as primarily or exclusively an artifact.
    • […] artifactualism. Instead, our top priority should be challenging all forms of sexism. Period. And we should recognize both gender artifactualism and determinism for what they really are, namely, concepts that are highly susceptible to […]2023, Julia Serano, Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive, page 146
    • […] unlike plenitudinism, artifactualism holds that fictional characters are artifacts. […] [They] therefore conclude that artifactualism yields incoherent results when we deal with MSCFs. And, since comics are often MSCFs, it looks like artifactualism can't help us make sense of comics characters.2022, Sam Cowling, Wesley Cray, Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction, page 110 & 123

Questions about artifactualism

What does artifactualism mean?
Artifactualism means a worldview which treats (something) as primarily or exclusively an artifact.
What part of speech is artifactualism?
Artifactualism is a noun.

Words near artifactualism in the dictionary

  1. artifacting
  2. artifactitious
  3. artifactitiously
  4. artifacts
  5. artifactual
  6. artifactualism
  7. artifactualist
  8. artifactualists
  9. artifactualities
  10. artifactuality
  11. artifactualization

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