causalist

English

Etymology

causal +‎ -ist

Noun

causalist (plural causalists)

  1. A proponent of causalism
    • 2007 May 31, Jussi Wiljami Jylkkä, “Theories of natural kind term reference and empirical psychology”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 2, DOI:10.1007/s11098-007-9107-y:
      The causalist cannot explain what determines the extensions of our terms without introducing some internal classifying notion, while the descriptivist arguably has been after this kind of reference determining classifying notion all the time.

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