parallelist

American  

[par-uh-lel-ist, -luh-list] / ˈpær əˌlɛl ɪst, -lə lɪst /

noun

1. a person who seeks or makes a comparison.

2. an adherent of the metaphysical doctrine of parallelism.

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Etymology

Origin of parallelist

First recorded in 1785–95; parallel + -ist

Example Sentences

Another merchant of gloom was Wall Street Analyst John H. Lewis,* a historical parallelist, who had made his reputation in July 1946 by announcing a bear market just as the market started down.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, what can the parallelist mean by referring sensations and ideas to the brain and yet denying that they are in the brain?

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart

We must not forget that neither parallelist nor interactionist ever dreams of repudiating our common experiences of the relations of mental phenomena and physical.

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart

The materialist places the representation after this movement and derives it from the movement; the parallelist places it by the side of the movement and in equivalence to it.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

Observation and the testimony of the consciousness seem to attest this dual progress; but they are, according to the parallelist hypothesis, illusions.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred