imitationism
nounEtymology From imitation + -ism.
1
The practice of imitating the style of another.
- Imitation and autoimitation are certain forms of behaviour, and hence imitationism is a proposal to reduce inner experience (introspection) to external experience (extraspection) via a translation of psychological statements into sentences about corresponding imitations or autoimitations; […]2012, Jan Wolenski, Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov—Warsaw School, page 230: