0 someone who is different or original
1 a person who is different and original in his or her thoughts and actions:
Even though she’s part of the mainstream, McCardell remains an individualist who thinks for herself.
The exaggeratedly individualist and voluntarist character of such a theory would deprive every existing polity of its legitimacy.
And he is demonstrably an individualist, again in an era often (wrongly) characterized as one of acquiescence and conformity.
However, what counts as knightly is interpreted through the individualist, small business-oriented professional ethos of dentistry.
But the individualist definition of the private is also a point of crossover between the market and the familial/domestic meaning of private.
As structural explanations are not inconsistent with ontological individualism, we conclude that both structural and individualist explanations are acceptable and indispensable.
It is the reluctant individualist's response to the neo-liberal assertion that privatisation and the residual model are the only way forward for social security.
The key methodological point is that the disputes between reductionists and pluralists or between individualists and holists are empirical and not conceptual disputes.
Instead, they are made in accordance with the individualist weighing principle.
