Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who realizes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who realizes.
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- noun Something or someone that
realizes , or that brings aboutrealization
Etymologies
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Examples
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His job depends upon making good; he is the "realizer," the dominating and master-mind of the show.
The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession Ned Wayburn
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The French word for "film director" would translate literally as "realizer," i.e., one who makes something real.
Tucson Weekly 2009
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But it's unclear whether any such redescriptions are available to role (vs. realizer) functionalists.
Functionalism Levin, Janet 2009
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And, though some theorists argue that overdetermination is widespread and unproblematic (see Loewer 2002, and also Shaffer, 2003, and Sider 2003, for a more general discussion of overdetermination), others contend that there is a special relation between role and realizer that provides an intuitive explanation of how both can be causally efficacious without counting as overdetermining causes.
Functionalism Levin, Janet 2009
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That makes the 65-year-old the biggest realizer of stock-option value among Silicon Valley CEOs so far this year, accounting for 45% of the total $277 million netted by the group, according to Equilar's analysis.
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The Exclusion Problem presents a mental (functional) property M and its physical realizer P as competing to be causally relevant to the same thing, namely a bit of behavior.
Mental Causation Robb, David 2008
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HAMMER: The battle continues to brew over a little baby, still too young to realizer her loss or to miss the mother she barely knew.
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~ On being a Guru -- "In this video Andrew Cohen interviews the Three Gurus Swami Shankarananda, Swami Chetanananda, and Master Charles Cannon starting with bringing up 'the challenge, on a very human level, for the guru, for the realizer, for the individual who assumes that position...'"
Speedlinking 6/29/07 William Harryman 2007
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ROONEY: Well, I'm not a quick realizer of things like that.
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ROONEY: Well, I'm not a quick realizer of things like that.
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