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  • noun philosophy One who subscribes to emergentism.

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emergent +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • To which we could add the emergentist claim, nicely summarised here:

    L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Because TG grammar is concerned with patterns at a deeper level of abstraction than the surface phenomena that (arguably) are the raw material of language acquisition (at least, according to the emergentist/usage-based school) it is doubtful whether it is of much use to learners.

    X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • The very fact of my own phenomenology, combined with my undeniable intuition that computers lack awareness and the vacuity of emergentist solutions, convinces me that something transcendental is going on.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • The very fact of my own phenomenology, combined with my undeniable intuition that computers lack awareness and the vacuity of emergentist solutions, convinces me that something transcendental is going on.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • The very fact of my own phenomenology, combined with my undeniable intuition that computers lack awareness and the vacuity of emergentist solutions, convinces me that something transcendental is going on.

    Aiguy's Computer 2008

  • To which we could add the emergentist claim, nicely summarised here:

    L is for (Michael) Lewis « An A-Z of ELT 2010

  • Here one would place the emergentist view of mind.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • Since this might seem an extremely appealing option for an emergentist and a panentheist, it seems appropriate to consider the reasons why Clayton rejects this option.

    Adventures in the Spirit: Part Two James F. McGrath 2009

  • Christian, pro-free market, spontaneous orders/emergentist, interdisciplinary thinker in the humanities.

    A Paragraph to Ponder, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Since this might seem an extremely appealing option for an emergentist and a panentheist, it seems appropriate to consider the reasons why Clayton rejects this option.

    Archive 2009-05-01 James F. McGrath 2009

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