Davidsonian

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adjective

Of or relating to Donald Davidson (1917–2003), American philosopher.

“My teacher was a big supporter of Davidsonian ethics”

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Meanings

adjectiveDavidsonian (comparative more Davidsonian, superlative most Davidsonian)

comparative more Davidsonian · superlative most Davidsonian

  1. Of or relating to Donald Davidson (1917–2003), American philosopher.

    My teacher was a big supporter of Davidsonian ethics

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    For, there is a considerably larger epistemic gap between ordinary attitude attributions and their Fodorian truth conditions than between those attributions and their Davidsonian truth conditions.

    1987, Terence Horgan, “Cognition Is Real”, in Behaviorism, volume 15, number 1, →JSTOR, page 19

Origin

From Davidson + -ian.

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