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physicalism

noun

Etymology

From physical + -ism.

  1. derived from *bʰuH-✻
  2. derived from φυσική
  3. derived from physica
  4. borrowed from physicālis
  5. suffixed as physicalism — “physical + ism”

Definitions

  1. A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than…

    A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things, which all are of logically procedural nature, based on fundamental laws at their deepest level of causality.

The neighborhood

  • antonymidealismantonym(s) of “philosophy”

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