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Machian, a. and n.|ˈmɑːkɪən|
[f. Mach + -ian.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Ernst Mach (see Mach) or his theories or ideas.
B. n. A follower or adherent of Mach or his ideas.
1927D. Kvitko tr. Lenin's Materialism & Empirio-Criticism i. 69 We shall confine ourselves to those opinions which reveal the ‘subjective’ ignorance of our Machians. Ibid. ii. 85 Your statement..is utterly fallacious, and follows only from your Machian position. 1938A. Fineberg tr. Lenin's Materialism & Empirio-Criticism i. 82 Karl Pearson, the English Machian, who avoids all philosophical artifices. Ibid. iii. 169 James Ward... does not controvert Mach, but..utilises the entire Machian trend in physics in his fight against materialism. 1941Mind L. 82 The Machian positivists of Peirce's day denied that there are ‘really’ any natural laws. 1958Victorian Stud. I. 253 Russell's own theory of knowledge underwent an increasingly Machian development from Our Knowledge of the External World..to the Analysis of Mind, in which a full-blooded neutral monism of Mach's variety is expounded. 1963K. R. Popper Conjectures & Refutations vi. 173 In our own day essentialism has been dethroned; a Berkeleian or Machian positivism or instrumentalism has..become fashionable. 1974Nature 11 Jan. 99/2 Relation (8) may be looked upon either as an equipartition between the gravitational energy and the energy of expansion according to Einstein's equations or as a Machian relation determining the gravitational constant in terms of the matter content of the Universe. |