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evaluativist

evaluativist noun: a person who believes in or advocates evaluativism.

Noun

evaluativist (plural evaluativists)

  1. A person who believes in or advocates evaluativism.

Adjective

evaluativist (comparative more evaluativist, superlative most evaluativist)

  1. Of, relating to, or advocating evaluativism.
    • So on a normative realist picture, there will still be norms in Gibbard’s sense, and they will play many of the same psychological roles in explaining behavior that they do in the evaluativist picture.2009 January 27, Hartry Field, “Epistemology without metaphysics”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 249–290

Forms of evaluativist

Noun
pluralevaluativists
Adjective
comparativemore evaluativist
superlativemost evaluativist

Origin of evaluativist

From evaluative + -ist.

Questions about evaluativist

What does evaluativist mean?
Evaluativist means a person who believes in or advocates evaluativism.
What part of speech is evaluativist?
Evaluativist can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of evaluativist?
The plural of evaluativist is evaluativists.

Words near evaluativist in the dictionary

  1. evaluative diversities
  2. evaluative diversity
  3. evaluatively
  4. evaluativeness
  5. evaluativism
  6. evaluativist
  7. evaluativists
  8. evaluativity
  9. evaluator
  10. evaluators
  11. evaluatory

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