levelism

Noun

1. The political aim of levelling all distinctions of rank in society; egalitarianism.
   • Supposing the charge exhibited against governments, under the national control, to be true; and admitting that they do tend towards levelism; it would then become necessary to compute, which species of levelism, that of...
   • Our greatest danger is from the contagion of levelism; what folly is it that has set the world agog to be all equal to French barbers . - 1846, Chauncy Goodrich, “Letter from Chauncy Goodrich, February 17,1793”, in...
   • The higher classes of men are more inclined to tyranny, and the lower classes of men are more inclined to levelism. - 1842, Nathanael Emmons, Jacob Ide, The Works of Nathanael Emmons, page 105:
2. The use of different levels of abstraction in order to understand something.
   • Reality can be studied at different levels, so forms of 'levelism' have often been advocated in the past. In the 1970s, levelism nicely doevetailed with the computational turn and became a standard approach both in...
   • Epistemological levelism, based on levels of abstraction, endorses pluralism without falling into relativism or perspectivism, since "the explicit reference to the LoA makes it clear that the model of a system is a...
   • There is the "levelism" of the rich repertoire of mathematical hierarchies, mainly the domain of the logician—in general, mathematicians like to be given a specific informational context to solve their puzzles within. -...