substantialistn.adj.

1657 J. Gaule Sapientia Justificata 10 That Original sin is not a vicious accident or adjunct, but is become our very Nature, Essence, and Substance;..so [maintain] the Flaccians, and Substantialists.

1847 F. Prandi tr. C. Cantù Reform. Europe I. 98 Hence arose the heresy of the Flacians or substantialists.

1905 A. M. Christie tr. J. Janssen Hist. German People VII. 148 All Lutherans agreed that the human substance is no longer uncorrupted. After this the Lutherans were divided into Substantialists and Accidentists.

1819 J. Lawrence in Monthly Mag. Sept. 112/2 May not the substantialists retort, there can be no sensations or ideas; for, take away all substantial matter,..and what will then have become of ideas.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) I. xvi. 294 Philosophers..are divided into Realists or Substantialists, and into Nihilists or Non-Substantialists.

1888 Microcosm (N.Y.) Dec. 6/1 The conversational powers of the young substantialist [R. Rogers].

1904 Amer. Jrnl. Theol. 8 702 Nor does he lose an opportunity to score the substantialists, whose theory he crudely interprets to mean some sort of changeless entity or ‘pure being’ that is hidden behind the states of consciousness.

1946 H. Mead Types & Probl. of Philos. vii. 137 It was not until the eighteenth century that these attacks became critical enough to put substantialists on the defensive.

1976 D. J. Kalupahana Buddhist Philos. iii. 29 It was the Buddha's answer to..the eternalist theory of the Substantialists, who posited an unchanging immutable self.

2002 tr. Chandrakirti Introd. to Middle Way 174 One will end up proving that phenomena are truly existent, just as the substantialists believe.

1878 Proc. Literary & Philos. Soc. Liverpool 32 27 The latter part of the sentence..throws ambiguity over the whole, as it might admit the Substantialist doctrine.

1881 S. H. Hodgson tr. C. Renouvier in Mind 6 180 The action and re-action of the substantialist (materialist) school.

1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 352 Hume..proceeds..to fly to as great an extreme as the substantialist philosophers.

1986 W. H. Newton-Smith in R. Flood & M. Lockwood Nature of Time iii. 29 We do not need to make such a controversial assumption in order to feel uncomfortable with this substantialist conception of space in the context of classical physics.

2005 D. E. Cooper & S. P. James Buddhism, Virtue & Environment v. 111 The substantialist view of the self rejected by the Buddha has not enjoyed the entrenched popularity in Western thought that our ecological holists seem to imagine.