extinctionist
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4ADJ.
wild
VERB + EXTINCTIONIST
lacks
EXTINCTIONIST + NOUN
g, israel, life, policy
PREP.
towards
Definitions
noun
An advocate of extinctionism.
As to whether animals that cannot be domesticated are worth preserving is a question I will not discuss here. But there is this much to be said, in opposition to the extinctionist, that wild life, placed on the lowest basis, has certainly a commercial value which should not be overlooked.
If we are to regain a sensitivity to the reality of non-sensory facts, including that of life after death; if we wish to escape some of the problems of dualism while affirming many of dualism’s strengths; if we want to affirm the benefits of a naturalistic view of the origin of mind from matter without rejecting the activity of God in the world or the reality of religious and paranormal phenomena; then Griffin’s model is a strong candidate to plausibly meet these needs. It is the merit of his interpretation of process thought that it rises above the extinctionist interpretation and considers the data of religious life in a non-reductionist manner.
A player who plays a roguelike game with the additional challenge of killing all creatures to extinction.
What an Extinctionist tries to do is completely eliminate as many kinds of monsters from the game as possible, either through genocide if it's available, or from just depleting all the kinds of monsters that can be produced.
adj
Relating to extinctionism.
Hamas has embraced the nihilism of the suicide bomber, of rockets fired blindly into towns, and the nihilism of the extinctionist policy towards Israel.
Although Last Ones Left Alive courts comparison with Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven, it doesn’t deliver that novel’s transcendent sense of art’s absurd persistence. It lacks the extinctionist glee of Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy.
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6As to whether animals that cannot be domesticated are worth preserving is a question I will not discuss here. But there is this much to be said, in opposition to the extinctionist, that wild life, pla
WiktionaryIf we are to regain a sensitivity to the reality of non-sensory facts, including that of life after death; if we wish to escape some of the problems of dualism while affirming many of dualism’s streng
WiktionaryThe Voluntary Human Extinctionists among you would no doubt be thrilled. But how would that affect the remainder of your life? Knowing that yours is the last “batch” of humans, would your actions, you
WiktionaryHamas has embraced the nihilism of the suicide bomber, of rockets fired blindly into towns, and the nihilism of the extinctionist policy towards Israel.
WiktionaryAlthough Last Ones Left Alive courts comparison with Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven, it doesn’t deliver that novel’s transcendent sense of art’s absurd persistence. It lacks the extinctionist g
Wiktionary“The pro-extinctionist view,” they say, “immediately conjures up for a lot of people the image of a homicidal, ghoulish, sadistic maniac, but actually most pro-extinctionists would say that most ways
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