Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who constitutes or appoints.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who constitutes or appoints.
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- noun One who
constitutes orappoints .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Lowe responds that since ˜cloud-constituter™ is not a folk concept, we don't really have any philosophically salient intuitions here, so this cannot be a way in which the position is unintuitive.
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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If we assume that it is extrinsic, if it turns on the history of the object, perhaps its future or its possible future, and on which object it is embedded in, then the fact that a cloud-constituter looks, when considered in isolation, to be a cloud is little reason to think it actually is a cloud.
The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009
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Secondly, For the promises which are proposed together with the command to believe: — First, they do not hold out the intent and purpose of God, that Christ should die for us if we do believe; which is absurd, — that the act should be the constituter of its own object, which must be before it, and is presupposed to be before we are desired to believe it: nor, secondly, the purpose of God that the death of
The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967
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Even so, however, the duality of constituter and thing constituted is unparsimonious (cf.
Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007
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