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Definition of Simplists
1. simplist [n] - See also: simplist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simplists
Literary usage of Simplists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Documentary History of American Industrial Society by American Bureau of Industrial Research, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Eugene Allen Gilmore (1910)
"... were philosophers as well as philanthropists-they were not simplists, who took
but a single and one-sided view of a question; they were compound ..."
2. The Later Nineteenth Century by George Saintsbury (1907)
"Decadents," and the like, much more " Naturists," " Simplists," and other tickets
which have followed, are mere foam-balls in the river of poetry, ..."
3. A System of Physiological Botany by Patrick Keith (1816)
"This is a phenomenon that seems also to have puzzled the simplists of antiquity
not a little; and to have given rise to a great deal of idle and ..."
4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1856)
"This is a phenomenon which seems also to have puzzled the simplists of antiquity
not a little, and to have given rise to a great deal of iA and ..."
5. The Passions of the Human Soul by Charles Fourier, John Reynell Morell, Hugh Doherty (1851)
"Reasoning of simplists, who rant incessantly about unity, and who forget the
first law of unity, the composite intervention or combined action of all the ..."
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