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constructivist, a. and n.|kənˈstrʌktɪvɪst|
1. Of or pertaining to, a practitioner of, theatrical or artistic constructivism (see constructivism 1 a and b).
1928Observer 1 July 15/5 The play..needs a ‘constructivist’ setting—whatever that is. 1930Ibid. 26 Jan. 10 Some of the settings suggest the influence of constructivist architecture. 1934Archit. Rev. LXXV. 12/2 As a constructivist painter Moholy-Nagy was the first to use new synthetic materials like galalith, trolith and cellon. 1944E. H. Ramsden in H. Treece H. Read 48 The Constructivists..who ..continue to claim for their creative achievements a unique distinction. 1955Times 2 Aug. 10/1 The geometric constructions of the Constructivist sculptors likewise rejoice in immaculate surfaces, and the fact that the actual materials are metals and plastics gives them the illusion of being entirely machine-made. 1956L. Ashton in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowl. 312 The Cubists and the Futurists were controlled too much by technique, and this led to a still further emanation of technology usually referred to as the Constructivist school. 1961Times 23 Jan. 16/1 English constructivists love white.
2. Of or pertaining to, an adherent of, mathematical constructivism (see constructivism 2.
1943Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. LIII. 69 The only way in which the constructivist demand could in general be met would be by giving the y as an effectively calculable function of x. 1970[see intuitionist 2 b]. 1979Sci. Amer. Oct. 143/2 In spite of the unresolved problems at its foundations modern mathematics is extremely successful, and it is not even clear that the constructivists' charge that the subject lacks real meaning is valid. 1982W. S. Hatcher Logical Found. Math. ii. 71 Brouwer, Poincaré, Kronecker, and Weyl are a few of the mathematicians who took some kind of constructivist position.
Hence constructiˈvistic a., characterized by constructivism (sense 2 above).
1944K. Gödel in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 136 The constructivistic (or nominalistic) standpoint toward the objects of logic and mathematics. 1963Philos. Rev. LXXII. 29, I shall..attempt to clarify a little Wittgenstein's peculiar constructivistic doctrine. |