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historicist

UK //hɪˈstɒrɪsɪst//US //hɪˈstɔːrɪsɪst//

词源

源自德语 'Historismus'(19世纪),由 'history' + '-ist' 构成,指将历史作为解释框架的学说。

noun

❶ 历史主义者,指认为历史发展遵循特定规律或模式的人,强调历史事件的决定性影响。

“As a historicist, he believed all social changes were shaped by past events.”

(作为历史主义者,他认为所有社会变革都由过去的事件塑造。)

“Marx is often considered a historicist due to his theory of historical materialism.”

(马克思因其历史唯物主义理论常被视为历史主义者。)

同义词:historical determinist, contextualist, relativist

adjective

❶ 历史主义的,与强调历史背景或发展规律的理论或方法相关的。

“The historicist perspective dominated 19th-century German philosophy.”

(历史主义视角主导了19世纪的德国哲学。)

“This historicist interpretation challenges traditional biblical readings.”

(这种历史主义的解释挑战了传统的圣经解读。)

同义词:historically contextual, tradition-oriented, epochal

常见短语

historicist fallacy — 历史主义谬误,指过度依赖历史模式预测未来而忽视其他变量的错误。

“Assuming technology will inevitably progress is a historicist fallacy.”

(认为技术必然进步是一种历史主义谬误。)