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单词 Taylorian
释义

Taylorian

English

Etymology

Taylor + -ian

Adjective

Taylorian (comparative more Taylorian, superlative most Taylorian)

  1. Of or relating to the English architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) or the Taylor Institution he founded at Oxford University for the study of European languages.
  2. (business) Of or relating to Taylorism.
  3. Of or relating to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (born 1931).
    • 1974, Marilyn Ann Friedman, The Exploration of Human Behaviour in Terms of Its Rationality (doctoral dissertation), London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario, page 374:
      The problem is basically that any mechanical process of cause and effect may be reinterpreted as a "goal-directed" process along Taylorian lines by simply supposing that whatever happens to be its outcome has all along been the "end" toward which the events comprising the process have been "directed".
    • 1983, K. R. Minogue, “Relativism on the Banks of the Isis”, in Government and Opposition, volume 18, number 3, DOI:10.1111/j.1477-7053.1983.tb00351.x, ISSN 1477-7053, JSTOR 44484463, page 362:
      Later, constructing a notable Taylorian matrix, he argues that Eastonian economic-model theories of political life ‘always end up either laughable, or begging the major question, or both’ (p. 76).
    • 2003, Roberta A. Bisaro, Multicultural Practices of Canadian Immigrant Youth: “A Work in Progress” (master’s thesis), Vancouver: University of British Columbia, DOI:10.14288/1.0076836, page 57:
      The formation of neighbourhoods within a particular school population may be seen as a counterpart to a Taylorian notion of "distinctness" and survivance.
    • 2005, Jane Forsey, “Creative Expression and Human Agency: A Critique of the Taylorian Self”, in Symposium, volume 9, number 2, DOI:10.5840/symposium20059223, ISSN 2154-5278, page 290:
      The U.N. report, while not a philosophical document, nevertheless points to facets of identity-formation that indicate a need to modify the Taylorian account.
    • 2014 November 20, “What We’ve Been Reading (& Listening To)”, in First Things, retrieved November 19, 2022:
      The first one hundred pages of the book struck me as very Taylorian. Ratzinger’s description of the believer and the unbeliever standing side-by-side whispering “perhaps” into each other’s ears sounds not unlike Charles Taylor’s suggestion that we can’t help but live our faith “in a condition of doubt and uncertainty.”
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Taylorian.

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