literalist

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You must understand that the scientific literalist is a simple person of faith.

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  1. One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
  2. In art, an exact copyist; one who draws or paints with unimaginative exactness.

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  • As a a former-literalist-turned-atheist and professional scientist, I am deeply entangled in both fundamentalist and very liberal social circles and affirm (non-quantitatively, of course) these results.
  • In the language of Godel, the I of the literalist (whether scientific or religious) will be highly consistent, but at the price of serious incompleteness —  One Cosmos
  • You must understand that the scientific literalist is a simple person of faith. —  One Cosmos
  • Like the religious literalist, his faith is consistent, but at the price of completeness. —  One Cosmos
  • Iran's law on abortion is therefore virtually identical to the one that Palin would like to see imposed on American women, and the rationale in both cases is the same, a literalist religious impulse that resists any compromise with the realities of biology and of women's lives. —  Political Waves
 

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  1. = French littéraliste = Spanish (rare) literalista; from literal + -ist.
 

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