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explanationist

explanationist noun: one who subscribes to explanationism.

Noun

explanationist (plural explanationists)

  1. One who subscribes to explanationism.
    • The explanationist strategy has to be supplemented with further constraints to identify genuine justifiers from among these candidates but Moser’s account lacks such a fastidious tendency.2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI

Forms of explanationist

pluralexplanationists

Origin of explanationist

From explanation + -ist.

Questions about explanationist

What does explanationist mean?
Explanationist means one who subscribes to explanationism.
What part of speech is explanationist?
Explanationist is a noun.
What is the plural of explanationist?
The plural of explanationist is explanationists.

Words near explanationist in the dictionary

  1. explanary
  2. explanate
  3. explanated
  4. explanation
  5. explanationism
  6. explanationist
  7. explanationists
  8. explanations
  9. explanative
  10. explanatively
  11. explanator

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