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Davidsonian

Davidsonian adjective: of or relating to Donald Davidson (1917–2003), American philosopher.

Adjective

Davidsonian (comparative more Davidsonian, superlative most Davidsonian)

  1. Of or relating to Donald Davidson (1917–2003), American philosopher.
    • My teacher was a big supporter of Davidsonian ethics
    • For, there is a considerably larger epistemic gap between ordinary attitude attributions and their Fodorian truth conditions than between those attributions and their Davidsonian truth conditions.1987, Terence Horgan, “Cognition Is Real”, in Behaviorism, volume 15, number 1, →JSTOR, page 19

Forms of Davidsonian

comparativemore Davidsonian
superlativemost Davidsonian

Origin of Davidsonian

From Davidson + -ian.

Questions about Davidsonian

What does Davidsonian mean?
Davidsonian means of or relating to Donald Davidson (1917–2003), American philosopher.
What part of speech is Davidsonian?
Davidsonian is an adjective.

Words near Davidsonian in the dictionary

  1. Davidson plum
  2. Davidson plums
  3. Davidson's Mains
  4. Davidson's plum
  5. Davidson's plums
  6. Davidsonian
  7. Davie
  8. Davie County
  9. davies
  10. Daviess County
  11. Davignon

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