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singularist
noun 3adj 2
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4ADJ.
clownish, ideal, multiplist
VERB + SINGULARIST
allows, divides, end
SINGULARIST + NOUN
condition, inquiry, itself, nonconformist, tradition
PREP.
from
Definitions
noun
1
One who affects singularity.
a clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage
2
A proponent of singularism.
To that end, the singularist understands an inquiry to proceed.
What divides the singularist from the multiplist is not just an epistemic difference.
3
A proponent of singularism.
Like all singularists, Ducasse holds that causation is a relation between particular events with no generalist comonent.
My own sympathies are with the generalizing singularist,
adj
1
Pertaining to the believe in a single valid interpretation.
Yet insofar as such reconciliation or healing depends upon satisfactory elucidatory inquiries into the admissibility of interretations of pertinent situations, the conducts of inquiry associated with singularist and multiplist ideals would be operative.
Rather than think of multiplist conditions as being always en route to an ideal singularist condition (which they may sometimes be), the multiplist allows that a singularist condition may itself be interim or en route to a yet deeper understanding of the complexities of pertinent practices .
2
Pertaining to the belief believes that the causal relationship is a directly perceivable and reducible relation between two events
In that respect , I am working within a broadly Humean tradition and not the singularist tradition .
Whether singularist theories of causation are viable depends intially on which brand of singularism one has in mind.
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a clownish singularist, or nonconformist to ordinary usage
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To that end, the singularist understands an inquiry to proceed.
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What divides the singularist from the multiplist is not just an epistemic difference.
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Yet insofar as such reconciliation or healing depends upon satisfactory elucidatory inquiries into the admissibility of interretations of pertinent situations, the conducts of inquiry associated with
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Rather than think of multiplist conditions as being always en route to an ideal singularist condition (which they may sometimes be), the multiplist allows that a singularist condition may itself be in
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In that respect , I am working within a broadly Humean tradition and not the singularist tradition .
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