explanationist

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noun

One who subscribes to explanationism.

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Meanings

nounexplanationist (plural explanationists)

plural explanationists

  1. One who subscribes to explanationism.

    The explanationist strategy has to be supplemented with further constraints to identify genuine justifiers from among these candidates but Moser’s account lacks such a fastidious tendency.

    2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI

Origin

From explanation + -ist.

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APA

explanationist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/explanationist

MLA

“explanationist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/explanationist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “explanationist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/explanationist.

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