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quantitativist, n. and a.|kwɒntɪˈteɪtɪvɪst| [f. quantitative a. + -ist.] a. n. A person for whom quantity is a criterion of value. b. adj. Resulting from an evaluation of quantity.
1957R. K. Merton Social Theory (rev. ed.) x. 396 The local influential is typically concerned with knowing as many people as possible. He is a quantitativist in the sphere of social contacts. 1972Human World Feb. 21 The..quantitativist illusion that the level of enlightenment must correspond to the amount of time spent between the school walls. 1974B. Pearce tr. Amin's Accumulation on World Scale II. iii. 452 It is by means of concrete historical explanation that we must account for each period of price increase in the nineteenth century, and not by means of a general quantitativist explanation. |