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nonist

nonist noun: an advocate of nonism.

Noun

nonist (plural nonists)

  1. An advocate of nonism
    • But the request to relate positively what these significant respects are is just what the nonist is eager to decline, since among the lessons he has taken from his materialist forebears is that characterizing the physical is not an activity to be conducted from the armchair, but is an a posteriori...2007 August 9, Neal Judisch, “Why ‘non-mental’ won’t work: on Hempel’s dilemma and the characterization of the ‘physical’”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, →DOI

Forms of nonist

pluralnonists

Questions about nonist

What does nonist mean?
Nonist means an advocate of nonism.
What part of speech is nonist?
Nonist is a noun.
What is the plural of nonist?
The plural of nonist is nonists.

Words near nonist in the dictionary

  1. nonissued
  2. nonissuer
  3. nonissuers
  4. nonissues
  5. nonissuing
  6. nonist
  7. nonistic
  8. nonists
  9. nonitalic
  10. nonitalicized
  11. nonitemized

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