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Meaning of "actualist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ACTUALIST

actualist  [ˈæktʃʊəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ACTUALIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Actualist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ACTUALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Actualism

In contemporary analytic philosophy, actualism is a position on the ontological status of possible worlds that holds that everything that exists is actual. Another phrasing of the thesis is that the domain of unrestricted quantification ranges over all and only actual existents. The denial of actualism is possibilism, the thesis that there are some entities that are merely possible: these entities exist but are not to be found in the actual world. Regarding Modal realism: "An important but significantly different notion of possibilism to which many of the issues in this article do not apply was developed by the philosopher David Lewis."...

Definition of actualist in the English dictionary

The definition of actualist in the dictionary is a realist, one who deals in hard fact.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ACTUALIST


analyst
ˈænəlɪst
conceptualist
kənˈseptʃʊəlɪst
dualist
ˈdjʊəlɪst
duellist
ˈdjʊəlɪst
factualist
ˈfæktʃʊəlɪst
gradualist
ˈɡrædjʊəlɪst
homosexualist
ˌhɒməˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
individualist
ˌɪndɪˈvɪdjʊəlɪst
intellectualist
ˌɪntɪˈlɛktʃʊəlɪst
mutualist
ˈmjuːtʃʊəlɪst
pansexualist
pænˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
perpetualist
pəˈpetʃʊəlɪst
punctualist
ˈpʌŋktʃʊəlɪst
sensualist
ˈsɛnsjʊəlɪst
sexualist
ˈsɛkʃʊəlɪst
specialist
ˈspɛʃəlɪst
spiritualist
ˈspɪrɪtjʊəlɪst
textualist
ˈtɛkstʃʊəlɪst
virtualist
ˈvɜːtʃʊəlɪst
visualist
ˈvɪzjʊəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ACTUALIST

actual
actual bodily harm
actual sin
actual total loss
actualisation
actualise
actualities
actuality
actualization
actualize
actually
actuals
actuarial
actuarially
actuaries
actuary
actuate
actuation
actuator
acture

WORDS THAT END LIKE ACTUALIST

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brutalist
capitalist
centralist
finalist
fundamentalist
generalist
hospitalist
idealist
mentalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
Orientalist
photojournalist
realist
removalist
sensationalist
serialist
socialist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of actualist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «actualist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ACTUALIST

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The translations of actualist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «actualist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

actualist
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

actualista
570 millions of speakers

English

actualist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

actualist
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

actualist
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

actualist
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

actualist
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

actualist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

actualistes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Aktistis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

actualist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

actualist
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

actualist
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Aktistis
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

actualist
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

actualist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वास्तविकतावादी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

actualist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

attualista
65 millions of speakers

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actualist
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

actualist
40 millions of speakers

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actualist
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

actualist
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

actualist
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

actualist
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

actualist
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of actualist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ACTUALIST»

The term «actualist» is used very little and occupies the 184.511 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ACTUALIST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about actualist

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACTUALIST»

Discover the use of actualist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to actualist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
An Actualist Ontology for Counterfactuals
What theory along with its ontological commitments should we adopt?
Araceli Sandil Penafuerte, 2008
2
First-Order Modal Logic
EXISTENCE AND ACTUALIST QUANTIFICATION We saw, in Chapter 4, that two basic kinds of quantification were natural in first-order modal logics: possibilist and actualist. Possibilist quantifiers range over what might exist. This corresponds ...
M. Fitting, Richard L. Mendelsohn, 1998
3
Modal Logic as Metaphysics
Informally, the idea is that the possibilist interprets the actualist's talk of 'what there is' as talk only of what has an additional property, 'existence', while the actualist interprets the possibilist's talk of 'what there is' as talk of what there could be.
Timothy Williamson, 2013
4
Philosophy of Education: Society and education
II actualist conceptions are to permit departures from equality of outcomes that more thoroughgoing outcomes-based conceptions would not, then they must do so by virtue of permitting more kinds of inputs to justify unequal outcomes. Formally ...
Paul Heywood Hirst, Patricia White, 1998
5
Possible Worlds
defence of genuine realism in On the Plurality of Worlds one becomes keenly aware that the exposition of the rival actualist realist positions is invariably less comprehensive. One might find that the actualist realist cause is prosecuted by ...
John Divers, 2006
6
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
Hence, it would appear that Plantinga has indeed successfully developed a semantics for modal languages that comports with actualist scruples. Problems with this Account Objections to Plantinga's account of actualism are addressed in the ...
Stanford Encyclopedia
7
The Nature of Consciousness
The actualist model of phenomenal properties makes it impossible to understand how such properties can fit into the causal order. It makes it impossible to understand, that is, how phenomenal properties can causally produce, or be causally ...
Mark Rowlands, 2001
8
The World-Time Parallel: Tense and Modality in Logic and ...
But you will also see, we think, just how difficult it is to do so. Although we make no claims about the status of any of the premises ofeither argument we suspect that an actualist will probably take exception to the principle (12) on p. 237, above.
A. A. Rini, 2012
9
The Construction of Logical Space
What gives the actualist's method its punch is the fact that it generalizes: one can show that there is a systematic transformation of arbitrary Lewisian sentences into dotted actualist sentences which preserves truth-values and inferential ...
Agustín Rayo, 2013
10
Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics
But without possibilia, how is the actualist ersatzer to account for the D and d(w) that appear in such semantics? Since the ersatzer does believe in actual individuals, he might try identifying D with the set of actual individuals. But that would ...
Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne, Dean W. Zimmerman, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACTUALIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term actualist is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lincoln poet partners with comic artists to create something new
David Morise, a co-founder of the academia-deflating Actualist movement during the late '60s at the University of Iowa, paired some of poetry's ... «Lincoln Journal Star, Apr 15»
2
Weekly Book List, February 6, 2015
Defends what is termed an Actualist theory of consciousness that is both externalist in terms of perception and internalist in terms of cognition. «Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 15»
3
S Dubuque St. Cottages hearing will spill to February
Many arguments in support of rezoning the properties as historic landmarks cited the start of the Actualist Poetry Movement in the 1970s, 19th ... «Iowa City Press Citizen, Jan 15»
4
Spiritual Habitus
... a static possession rather than an ever-new event of divine giving and human receiving,” but they think that this actualist alternative “fails to ... «First Things, Jan 15»
5
Laureate Reading Series to feature poet Chuck Miller Jan. 6
He was involved in the Actualist poetry movement in the 1970s and has published 12 volumes of poetry, the most recent being “Parsecs to Go: ... «Winona Daily News, Dec 14»
6
Future of South Dubuque Street cottages still unclear
Trimble also tied the cottages to the beginning of the Actualist Poetry Movement in that area. Appraisals requested by Friends of Historic ... «Iowa City Press Citizen, Dec 14»
7
Independent publisher dies at 65
... came up with the name and while Caldwell met Kornblum in 1971 and “hung out” with Actualists, he never considered himself an Actualist. «West Branch Times, Dec 14»
8
Poet, publisher Allan Kornblum dies at age 65
Little did the Actualist poet and future publisher of Coffee House Press — who died Sunday in St. Paul, Minn., at age 65 — know then he had ... «Iowa City Press Citizen, Nov 14»
9
Passion for Actual Brewing almost sparked new religion
Mira Lee's just calls her "Actualist." Mira Lee also is restoring a 1913 printing press, which will be used to produce Actual promotional materials. «Akron Beacon Journal, Jun 13»
10
The 'Actualist Movement' Is Completely Changing How We Live …
HowAboutWe cofounders Aaron Schildkrout and Brian Schecter Aaron Schildkrout, left, is talking with his longtime friend and co-founder at ... «Business Insider, Jan 13»

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