multiplist

English

Etymology

multiple +‎ -ist

Adjective

multiplist (comparative more multiplist, superlative most multiplist)

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of multiplism.
   • 2006, William Damon, Richard M. Lerner, Deanna Kuhn, Handbook of Child Psychology, Cognition, Perception, and Language, →ISBN:

     Progression to the multiplist level occurred most readily in domains of personal taste and aesthetic judgments, while individuals were more likely to remain absolutist in their thinking in the domains of values and factual claims.

   • 2007, Michael Krausz, Interpretation and Transformation: Explorations in Art and the Self, →ISBN:

     Yet, we must ask whether a plurality of reference frames does entail a multiplist condition.

   • 2007, Myint Swe Khine, Knowing, Knowledge and Beliefs: Epistemological Studies across Diverse Cultures, →ISBN, page 182:

     In sum, the science students were less multiplist than the regular students in the physical and social domains, but did not show differences in the other domains.

Noun

multiplist (plural multiplists)

1. A person who thinks in a multiplist manner.
   • 1993, Michael Krausz, Rightness and Reasons: Interpretation in Cultural Practices, →ISBN, page 27:

     Again, the multiplist would hold that the grounds for separating admissible from inadmissible interpretations cannot be the same as the grounds for preferability among admissible interpretations.

   • 2003, Lawrence Balter, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Child Psychology: A Handbook of Contemporary Issues, →ISBN, page 277:

     The multiplist becomes aware of the subjective component of knowing, but to such an extent that it overpowers and obliterates any objective standard that would provide a basis for comparison or evaluation of opinions.

   • 2010, Joseph Margolis, Selves and Other Texts: The Case for Cultural Realism, →ISBN, page 124:

     In contrast, the multiplist holds that singularist conditions may obtain in some but not all cases. The multiplist holds that nothing mandates that an interpretation must answer to a singularist ideal.