speculatistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From speculate +‎ -ist.

名詞

speculatist (複数形 speculatists)

1. Someone who makes speculative theories or deals in abstract ideas; a theorist.
   • 1795, Vicesimus Knox, The Spirit of Despotism

     The very ingenious speculatist, Mr. Hume, seems to wish as well as think, that as death is unavoidable by the political as well as the animal body, the British constitution may die in the arms of despotism.

   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, Oxford 2009, p. 58:

     The objections of these speculatists, if its forces do not quadrate with their theories, are as valid against such an old and beneficent government as against the most violent tyranny or the greenest usurpation.

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