physicalismn.

Brit.

/ˈfɪzᵻkl̩ɪz(ə)m/,

/ˈfɪzᵻkəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S.

/ˈfɪzəkəˌlɪz(ə)m/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: physical adj., -ism suffix.

Etymology: < physical adj. + -ism suffix. In sense 2 perhaps after German Physikalismus (1931). Compare earlier physicalist n. and physicism n.

Philosophy.

1. The theory that all reality is explicable in terms of physical properties and laws.

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1870 A. J. Davis Approaching Crisis 18 If he apprehends no intrinsic antagonism between ‘Pantheism’,..‘Physicalism, Geology, and the Sciences’, and the system of a Supernatural Revelation..then..why does he..create a general prejudice against these features of modern Rationalism?

1916 W. E. Hocking in Philos. Rev. 25 iii. 488 The ideal of rounded development and activity is unquestionably the law of that Nature worshipped both by Greekdom and by our contemporary physicalism.

1993 Omni Oct. 54/2 Erich Harth suggests replacing the term with physicalism, meaning an assumption that physical processes..will account for all mental phenomena.

2. In the philosophy of the Vienna Circle: the theory that all science must be ultimately expressible in the language of physics.

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physicalism1931

1931 O. Neurath in Monist 41 618 (title) Physicalism: the Philosophy of the Viennese Circle.

1965 Language 41 196 He [sc. Bloomfield]..recommended a policy known first as ‘mechanism’ or ‘anti-mentalism’, later as ‘physicalism’.

1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 50 561 Hookway..thinks that Quine's physicalism draws the fact/nonfact (read: objective/subjective) distinction in too lopsided a manner.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	physicalism
释义	physicalismn. Brit. /ˈfɪzᵻkl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /ˈfɪzᵻkəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈfɪzəkəˌlɪz(ə)m/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: physical adj., -ism suffix. Etymology: < physical adj. + -ism suffix. In sense 2 perhaps after German Physikalismus (1931). Compare earlier physicalist n. and physicism n. Philosophy. 1. The theory that all reality is explicable in terms of physical properties and laws. ΚΠ 1870 A. J. Davis Approaching Crisis 18 If he apprehends no intrinsic antagonism between ‘Pantheism’,..‘Physicalism, Geology, and the Sciences’, and the system of a Supernatural Revelation..then..why does he..create a general prejudice against these features of modern Rationalism? 1916 W. E. Hocking in Philos. Rev. 25 iii. 488 The ideal of rounded development and activity is unquestionably the law of that Nature worshipped both by Greekdom and by our contemporary physicalism. 1993 Omni Oct. 54/2 Erich Harth suggests replacing the term with physicalism, meaning an assumption that physical processes..will account for all mental phenomena. 2. In the philosophy of the Vienna Circle: the theory that all science must be ultimately expressible in the language of physics. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > theoretical scientific philosophy > [noun] > physicalism physicalism1931 1931 O. Neurath in Monist 41 618 (title) Physicalism: the Philosophy of the Viennese Circle. 1965 Language 41 196 He [sc. Bloomfield]..recommended a policy known first as ‘mechanism’ or ‘anti-mentalism’, later as ‘physicalism’. 1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 50 561 Hookway..thinks that Quine's physicalism draws the fact/nonfact (read: objective/subjective) distinction in too lopsided a manner. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1870
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