Associations to the word «Uniformitarian»

Wiktionary

UNIFORMITARIAN, noun. One who accepts uniformitarianism, or the uniformitarian doctrine.
UNIFORMITARIAN, adjective. Of, pertaining to, or designating, the view or doctrine that existing causes, acting in the same manner and with essentially the same intensity as at the present time, are sufficient to account for all geological changes.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke