fictionalist

English

Etymology

fictional +‎ -ist

Adjective

fictionalist (not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or supporting fictionalism

Noun

fictionalist (plural fictionalists)

1. (philosophy) One who subscribes to fictionalism, the belief that certain concepts are simply convenient logical fictions
   • 2007 September 28, David Liggins, “Quine, Putnam, and the ‘Quine–Putnam’ Indispensability Argument”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI:

     Rather than being aimed at those who deny the existence of mathematical objects, the argument’s target is those who deny the objectivity of mathematics—in Putnam’s opinion, intuitionists and fictionalists.