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Taylorian

Taylorian adjective: of or relating to the English architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) or the Taylor Institution he founded at Oxford University for the study of European languages.

Adjective

Taylorian (comparative more Taylorian, superlative most Taylorian)

  1. Of or relating to the English architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) or the Taylor Institution he founded at Oxford University for the study of European languages.
  2. Of or relating to Taylorism.
  3. Of or relating to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (born 1931).
    • The problem is basically that any mechanical process of cause and effect may be reinterpreted as a "goal-directed" process along Taylorian lines by simply supposing that whatever happens to be its outcome has all along been the "end" toward which the events comprising the process have been...1974, Marilyn Ann Friedman, The Exploration of Human Behaviour in Terms of Its Rationality (doctoral dissertation), London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario, page 374
    • Later, constructing a notable Taylorian matrix, he argues that Eastonian economic-model theories of political life ‘always end up either laughable, or begging the major question, or both’ (p. 76).1983, K. R. Minogue, “Relativism on the Banks of the Isis”, in Government and Opposition, volume 18, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 362

Examples of Taylorian in a sentence

  • The formation of neighbourhoods within a particular school population may be seen as a counterpart to a Taylorian notion of "distinctness" and survivance.2003, Roberta A. Bisaro, Multicultural Practices of Canadian Immigrant Youth: “A Work in Progress” (master’s thesis), Vancouver: University...
  • The U.N. report, while not a philosophical document, nevertheless points to facets of identity-formation that indicate a need to modify the Taylorian account.2005, Jane Forsey, “Creative Expression and Human Agency: A Critique of the Taylorian Self”, in Symposium, volume 9, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN...
  • The first one hundred pages of the book struck me as very Taylorian.2014 November 20, “What We’ve Been Reading (& Listening To)”, in First Things, retrieved 19 Nov 2022:

Forms of Taylorian

comparativemore Taylorian
superlativemost Taylorian

Origin of Taylorian

From Taylor + -ian.

Questions about Taylorian

What does Taylorian mean?
Taylorian means of or relating to the English architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) or the Taylor Institution he founded at Oxford University for the study of European languages.
How do you use Taylorian in a sentence?
The formation of neighbourhoods within a particular school population may be seen as a counterpart to a Taylorian notion of "distinctness" and survivance.
What part of speech is Taylorian?
Taylorian is an adjective.

Words near Taylorian in the dictionary

  1. Taylor's polynomial
  2. Taylor's polynomials
  3. Taylor's series
  4. Taylor-White process
  5. Tayloran
  6. Taylorian
  7. taylorione
  8. Taylorism
  9. Taylorisms
  10. Taylorist
  11. Taylorists

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