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evidentialist

evidentialist adjective: of or supporting evidentialism, the doctrine that evidence is of primary importance in questions of belief.

Adjective

evidentialist (comparative more evidentialist, superlative most evidentialist)

  1. Of or supporting evidentialism, the doctrine that evidence is of primary importance in questions of belief
    • An evidentialist variant would require the agent be responsive to a telling evidential basis for thinking that p obtains in contrast to the alternatives.2008 November 22, David Henderson, “Motivated contextualism”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 1, →DOI

Noun

evidentialist (plural evidentialists)

  1. One who supports or argues for evidentialism

Forms of evidentialist

Adjective
comparativemore evidentialist
superlativemost evidentialist
Noun
pluralevidentialists

Origin of evidentialist

From evidential + -ist.

Questions about evidentialist

What does evidentialist mean?
Evidentialist means of or supporting evidentialism, the doctrine that evidence is of primary importance in questions of belief.
What part of speech is evidentialist?
Evidentialist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near evidentialist in the dictionary

  1. evidencing
  2. evident
  3. evidential
  4. evidentialism
  5. evidentialisms
  6. evidentialist
  7. evidentialistic
  8. evidentialists
  9. evidentialities
  10. evidentiality
  11. evidentially

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