Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
systematizer .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who systemizes, or reduces to system; a systematizer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
systemizes , orreduces tosystem ; asystematizer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an organizer who puts things in order
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think he was just giving an illustrative example of his usage of the term "systemizer"--an example that might be recognizable to his listening audience.
Economics and Autism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So what if your deaf like me in one ear, or that you are a super systemizer, while someone else really loves to travel and enter chili competitions…
One wonders… 2010
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Simon Baron-Cohen said, A systemizer is somebody whose style of thinking is predominantly in terms of understanding things according to rules or laws.
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I consider myself more of a systemizer than an empathizer, in Baron-Cohen's scheme.
Economics and Autism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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A systemizer is somebody whose style of thinking is predominantly in terms of understanding things according to rules or laws.
Economics and Autism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But it called me an absolutely terrible empathizer AND systemizer. (like 3-4 on each)
Switch Hitting: Part II JoAnne 2006
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Simon Baron-Cohen said, A systemizer is somebody whose style of thinking is predominantly in terms of understanding things according to rules or laws.
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Could it be shown that the arch-systemizer — the philosopher who thrust his own noble spirit hardest down on the Procrustean bed — I mean Spinoza — is best understood if his system is unraveled and interpreted aphoristically?”
Sontag on Sontag 2008
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