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physicalistic, a.|fɪzɪkəˈlɪstɪk|
[f. physicalist + -ic.]
Pertaining to or characterized by physicalism. Hence physicaˈlistically adv.
1934M. Black tr. Carnap's Unity of Sci. 95 For the sake of precision we might supplement or replace ‘physical language’ by the term ‘physicalistic language’; denoting by the latter the universal language which contains not only physical terms (in the narrow sense) but also all the various special terminologies (of Biology,..etc.) understood as reduced by definitions to their basis in physical determinations. 1949M. Schlick in Feigl & Sellars Readings in Philos. Analysis 407 The validity of the physicalistic assertion would be ever more restricted. 1954Webster Add., Physicalistically. 1956A. J. Ayer Probl. Knowl. v. 210 It is only if such statements [about thoughts, feelings] are interpreted ‘physicalistically’ that they can convey any information from one person to another. 1972Science 16 June 1204/3 To physicalistic philosophy they [sc. altered states of consciousness] are epiphenomena. 1978P. Pettit in Hookway & Pettit Action & Interpretation 51 Something as deep as the physicalistic prejudices of natural science or the postulates of rational man theory. |