realizer

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noun

Something or someone that realizes, or that brings about realization

OriginEnglish realize ← Middle English real ← Old French ree →
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Meanings

nounrealizer (plural realizers)

plural realizers · alternative realiser

  1. Something or someone that realizes, or that brings about realization

    Suppose that the non-reductive physicalist claims that in the actual world physical property P is the one and only realizer for mental property M.

    2008 January 15, Kelly Trogdon, “Physicalism and sparse ontology”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, →DOI, pages 147–165

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁ís
  3. Proto-Italic*reis
  4. Classical Latinrēs
  5. Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
  7. Late Latinreālis
  8. Old Frenchree
  9. Middle Englishreal
  10. Englishreal
  11. Englishrealize
  12. Englishrealizer

From realize + -er.

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Chicago

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