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Etymology edit

explanation +‎ -ist

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explanationist (plural explanationists)

  1. One who subscribes to explanationism.
    • 2008 September 12, Hamid Vahid, “Experience and the Space of Reasons: The Problem of Non-Doxastic Justification”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI:
      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.