constructivistadj.n.

1928 Observer 1 July 15/5 The play..needs a ‘constructivist’ setting—whatever that is.

1930 Observer 26 Jan. 10 Some of the settings suggest the influence of constructivist architecture.

1934 Archit. Rev. 75 12/2 As a constructivist painter Moholy-Nagy was the first to use new synthetic materials like galalith, trolith and cellon.

1944 E. H. Ramsden in H. Treece H. Read 48 The Constructivists..who ..continue to claim for their creative achievements a unique distinction.

1955 Times 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.

1956 L. 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.

1961 Times 23 Jan. 16/1 English constructivists love white.

1943 Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 53 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 A. Kino et al. Intuitionism & Proof Theory 19 That is the general way of accepting-on-faith in the domains of religion and philosophy, and in traditional intuitionist or constructivist mathematics also.

1979 Sci. 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.

1982 W. 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.

1944 K. Gödel in P. A. Schilpp Philos. B. Russell 136 The constructivistic (or nominalistic) standpoint toward the objects of logic and mathematics.

1963 Philos. Rev. 72 29 I shall..attempt to clarify a little Wittgenstein's peculiar constructivistic doctrine.