phenomenalistn.adj.

1856 P. E. Dove Logic Christian Faith i. ii. ii. §1. 83 We must conclude that both the materialist and phenomenalist are wrong.

1880 T. C. Murray Origin & Growth Psalms ix. 285 He [sc. G. H. Lewis] differs from the modern phenomenalist alone in his result.

1903 Harvard Psychol. Stud. 1 643 Phenomenalist and voluntarist thus do not see anything under the same aspect, neither the ideas nor the will.

1945 F. Waismann in Aristotelian Soc. Suppl. Vol. 19 121 The failure of the phenomenalist to translate a material object statement into terms of sense data..is due to..the ‘open texture’ of most of our empirical concepts.

1983 G. Nagel Structure of Experience i. 6 Phenomenalists..claim that the very meaning of an objective statement is no more than what can be said in the subjective statements that would tend to confirm or disconfirm the objective statement.

2001 Contemp. Sociol. 30 57/2 Kant was not a realist, but rather a phenomenalist.

1872 J. C. Shairp Culture & Relig. (ed. 3) 187 The point of the difference is that in the former (the phenomenalist point of view) we look upon what we can find out by physical research as ultimate fact.

1882 Mind 7 398 This book consisting of a summary of Rosmini's philosophy written by himself..is put forward as an antidote to prevailing sensationalist, subjective, and phenomenalist systems.

1914 C. D. Broad Perception, Physics & Reality 171 The phenomenalist position has to be stated as follows.

1956 E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics ii. 64 It is..said that a thing-language, or a phenomenalist language, e.g. one taking sense-data as a key-concept, represents an empiricist language.

1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 523 The light constancy axiom suggested that the velocity of light in a vacuum was independent of all other physical phenomena, that is, was ‘metaphysical’ from a phenomenalist perspective.

2000 Philos. Sci. 67 640 The argument made by Boltzmann against Mach's physics..was devastating to the phenomenalist picture of physics.