fictionalist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fictionalist (not comparable)
- Of, pertaining to, or supporting fictionalism
Noun
[edit]fictionalist (plural fictionalists)
- (philosophy) One who subscribes to fictionalism, the belief that certain concepts are simply convenient logical fictions
- 2007 September 28, David Liggins, “Quine, Putnam, and the ‘Quine–Putnam’ Indispensability Argument”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, :
- Rather than being aimed at those who deny the existence of mathematical objects, the argument’s target is those who deny the objectivity of mathematics—in Putnam’s opinion, intuitionists and fictionalists.