levelism

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The political aim of levelling all distinctions of rank in society

   The political aim of levelling all distinctions of rank in society; egalitarianism.

   • Our greatest danger is from the contagion of levelism; what folly is it that has set the world agog to be all equal to French barbers .
   • The higher classes of men are more inclined to tyranny, and the lower classes of men are more inclined to levelism.
2. 2

   The use of different levels of abstraction in order to understand something.

   • Reality can be studied at different levels, so forms of 'levelism' have often been advocated in the past. In the 1970s, levelism nicely doevetailed with the computational turn and became a standard approach both in science and philosophy.
   • There is the "levelism" of the rich repertoire of mathematical hierarchies, mainly the domain of the logician—in general, mathematicians like to be given a specific informational context to solve their puzzles within.

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