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inevitabilist

inevitabilist adjective: characteristic of inevitabilism.

Adjective

inevitabilist (comparative more inevitabilist, superlative most inevitabilist)

  1. Characteristic of inevitabilism.
    • What are the typical inevitabilist replies? They correspond to relatively familiar arguments in the philosophy of science for, at this point in our inquiry, the contingentist/inevitabilist debate intersects with more traditional debates about the underdeterminination of theory by empirical facts […]2016, Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Andrew Pickering, editors, Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN
    • The Trojan horse of computer meditation—devices, apps, connection—enters the scene in a relentless deluge of inevitabilist rhetoric, successfully distracting us from the highly intentional and historically contingent surveillance capitalism within.2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Forms of inevitabilist

comparativemore inevitabilist
superlativemost inevitabilist

Questions about inevitabilist

What does inevitabilist mean?
Inevitabilist means characteristic of inevitabilism.
What part of speech is inevitabilist?
Inevitabilist is an adjective.

Words near inevitabilist in the dictionary

  1. inevasible
  2. inevasive
  3. inevidence
  4. inevident
  5. inevitabilism
  6. inevitabilist
  7. inevitabilities
  8. inevitability
  9. inevitable
  10. inevitable abortion
  11. inevitable abortions

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