"complexifier" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1992 September, Philip E. Tetlock, “Good Judgment in International Politics: Three Psychological Perspectives”, in Political Psychology, volume 13, number 3, page 527",
          "text": "Whereas the complexifiers emphasize tolerance of ambiguity, contradiction, and change as critical ingredients for good judgment, the fundamentalists take a starkly different approach.",
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          "ref": "2000, Joseph William Singer, Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property, Yale University Press, page 213",
          "text": "The complexifiers seek to acknowledge and express the contradiction and to articulate reasons for resolving it one way or the other without reference to a single overarching theory or formula.",
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          "ref": "2009, Uldis Roze, The North American Porcupine, Cornell University Press, page 14",
          "text": "Again and again, the porcupine has been a teacher, a storyteller of the woods, a complexifier and adorner of the world.",
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          "ref": "2011, Scott Berkun, Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds, BookBaby, pt. 26",
          "text": "Complexifiers are averse to reduction. Instinctively they turn basic assignments into quagmires and reject simple ideas until they’re buried in layers of abstraction."
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          "ref": "2012, Michael Dalton Johnson, Rules of the Hunt, McGraw Hill, page 24",
          "text": "The Complexifier is well-meaning but annoying. The first words out of the Complexifier’s mouth are, “Yes but . . .”",
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        "Someone or something that introduces complexity (into an issue or situation)"
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