parallelist
Americannoun
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a person who seeks or makes a comparison.
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an adherent of the metaphysical doctrine of parallelism.
Etymology
Origin of parallelist
Example Sentences
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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
But this is not the concomitance that interests the parallelist.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
But the man who received the blow becomes conscious that he was struck, and both interactionist and parallelist regard him as becoming conscious of it when the incoming message reaches some part of the brain.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
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 Alfred Binet
Such arguments are not at the mercy of either interactionist or parallelist.
From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton
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