phenomenalisticallyadv.
/fᵻˌnɒmᵻnəˈlɪstᵻkli/, /fᵻˌnɒmᵻnlˈɪstᵻkli/, U.S. /fᵻˌnɑmənəˈlɪstək(ə)li/ Philosophy.
As regards phenomenalism; in terms of phenomenalism. phenomenalistically minded adj. inclined to phenomenalism.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adverb]
necessarily1664
positivistically1890
phenomenologically1891
phenomenalistically1909
nomically1921
operationally1925
reductionistically1950
hypothetico-deductively1953
metascientifically1954
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Phenomenalism Phenomenalistically.
1933 Mind 42 70 The elements in Hume's thought which are spurious, phenomenalistically speaking, are responsible..for a whole side of his thinking.
1934 A. C. Ewing Idealism vii. 294 A sense which cannot..be analysed phenomenalistically.
1943 Mind 42 340 But surely it ought to worry a phenomenalistically-minded philosopher; and Mr. Smith does not seem to be sufficiently worried by it.
1974 J. Bennett Kant's Dialectic xii. § 90 287 What [Kant] rejects is..talk about the Universe as a whole..which is not understood, phenomenalistically, as talk about possible sequences of future experiences.
1994 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 54 489 In earlier writings, Foster defended Idealism, arguing that insofar as there is a physical world, it is to be understood phenomenalistically.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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