complexifier

plural complexifiers

1. Someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation)

   Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.

   2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, Cornell University Press, page 14

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   Whereas the complexifiers emphasize tolerance of ambiguity, contradiction, and change as critical ingredients for good judgment, the fundamentalists take a starkly different approach.

   1992 September, Philip E. Tetlock, “Good Judgment in International Politics: Three Psychological Perspectives”, in Political Psychology, volume 13, number 3, page 527

   The complexifiers seek to acknowledge and express the contradiction and to articulate reasons for resolving it one way or the other without reference to a single overarching theory or formula.

   2000, Joseph William Singer, Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property, Yale University Press, page 213

   Complexifiers are averse to reduction. Instinctively they turn basic assignments into quagmires and reject simple ideas until they’re buried in layers of abstraction.

   2011, Scott Berkun, Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, BookBaby, pt. 26

   The Complexifier is well-meaning but annoying. The first words out of the Complexifier’s mouth are, “Yes but . . .”

   2012, Michael Dalton Johnson, Rules of the Hunt, McGraw Hill, page 24