The Collaborative International Dictionary
functionalist \functionalist\ n. an adherent of functionalism.
Wiktionary
a. Relating to functionalism. n. One who believes in functionalism.
WordNet
n. an adherent of functionalism
Usage examples of "functionalist".
By structuralist epistemology here we mean the reinvention of a functionalist analysis in the realm of the human sciences, a method that effectively sacrifices the dynamic of the system, the creative temporality of its movements, and the ontological substance of cultural and social reproduction.
If you are the best the functionalists can offer, we can afford to ignore them—they'll fold up from their own rotten inefficiency.
If you are the best the functionalists can offer, we can afford to ignore them - they'll fold up from their own rotten inefficiency.
If you are the best the functionalists can offer, we can afford to ignore them - they’ll fold up from their own rotten inefficiency.
Functionalist reason expresses itself in the ironic self-denial of a reason shrunk down to the reduction of complexity'shrunk down' because the metabiological frame of reference does not go beyond the logocentric limitations of metaphysics.
You know how it is—there are a few soreheads everywhere and a lot of them are functionalists.
You know how it is - there are a few soreheads everywhere and a lot of them are functionalists.