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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An adherent of the metaphysical theory of psychophysical parallelism. See parallelism, 6.
  • Consonant to the doctrine of psychophysical parallelism.

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Examples

  • Anyway, just to say, I'm as self-aware as the next parallelist Gen-Xer and can appreciate a buffoonish liberal caricature when I see one.

    can i have jimmies and carpet sweepin's on mine 2008

  • Anyway, just to say, I'm as self-aware as the next parallelist Gen-Xer and can appreciate a buffoonish liberal caricature when I see one.

    falcon hears the falconer 2008

  • The parallelist preserves both realms intact, but denies all causal interaction between them.

    Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

  • My favorite parallelist moment in culture is probably during the end "chase" sequence of "Ferris Bueller" when Matthew Broderick is running furiously through people's yards to beat his parents home, but still stops midway to introduce himself to some sunbathers.

    that numismatic gave me philatio 2005

  • My favorite parallelist moment in culture is probably during the end "chase" sequence of "Ferris Bueller" when Matthew Broderick is running furiously through people's yards to beat his parents home, but still stops midway to introduce himself to some sunbathers.

    no I said I want it WITHOUT pickles goddamit 2005

  • The key development here is a switch from prior non-causal, parallelist views to a new causal, or "interactionist" interpretation that ascribes to inner experience an integral causal control role in brain function and behavior.

    Roger W. Sperry - Nobel Lecture 1981

  • Usually too they do not work, that is, if examined closely enough; especially do they not work when the memory of the parallelist has been silently rewriting the past to fit the present, as in the present case.

    'The Memory of Justice': An Exchange Brombert, Victor 1977

  • Is there any scientific evidence open to the parallelist in psychology which is not also open to the interactionist?

    A Handbook of Ethical Theory George Stuart Fullerton

  • The existence of a "threshold of consciousness", or, in other words, of a limit of intensity which must be exceeded by the stimulus, as also by the nervous impulse which results, before the latter can affect our consciousness, has been experimentally proved, and this fact cannot be accounted for by the parallelist except on the assumption that there are states of consciousness of which we are wholly unconscious.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • On the one hand it includes the parallelist conception which we have recognised as effete.

    A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912

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