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interpretivism

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From interpretive + -ism.

noun interpretivisms

  1. countable, uncountable antipositivism
  2. countable, uncountable qualitative research
  3. countable, uncountable A school of cultural anthropological thought founded by Franz Boas.
  4. countable, uncountable A school of thought holding that law is not a set of given data, conventions, or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct or obtain in their practice.

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@misc{interpretivism_2026,
  title = {interpretivism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/interpretivism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}