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computationism

computationism noun: synonym of computationalism.

Noun

computationism (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of computationalism.
    • Although computers are a twentieth-century invention, computationism is much older, descending from Newton's contemporary Leibniz (and, arguably, more remotely from the Pythagoreans). It holds that everything is rationally intelligible only so far as it instantiates mathematical rules and ratios....2003, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, page 13

Synonyms of computationism

Origin of computationism

From computation + -ism.

Questions about computationism

What does computationism mean?
Computationism means synonym of computationalism.
What part of speech is computationism?
Computationism is a noun.

Words near computationism in the dictionary

  1. computationalist
  2. computationalistic
  3. computationalists
  4. computationally
  5. computationally secure
  6. computationism
  7. computationist
  8. computationists
  9. computations
  10. computative
  11. computativeness

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