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单词 phenomenalism
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Definition of phenomenalism in English:

phenomenalism

noun fəˈnɒmɪn(ə)lɪz(ə)mfəˈnɑmənəlˌɪzəm
mass nounPhilosophy
  • The doctrine that human knowledge is confined to or founded on the realities or appearances presented to the senses.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This book, together with a paper entitled The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics published in the same year, represents an excursus by Russell into something like phenomenalism.
    • Thus phenomenalism sought to reduce all statements to statements about immediately perceived sense-data.
    • The movement of Ayer's own thought has been from phenomenalism to what he describes in his latest treatment of the topic as ‘a sophisticated form of realism’.
    • Similarly, the emphasis on the translation of concepts into measures is symptomatic of the principle of phenomenalism that is also a feature of positivism.
    • Edwards' occasionalism, idealism, and mental phenomenalism provide a philosophical interpretation of God's absolute sovereignty: God is the only real cause and the only true substance.

Derivatives

  • phenomenalist

  • noun & adjective
    Philosophy
    • Having made this return journey from a version of phenomenalism or something close to it, Russell reconsidered problems which he now felt had not been properly dealt with under his phenomenalist assumptions.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the next passages, she also reveals a phenomenalist view about the individuality of physical objects: their ‘being’ is based on appearances, and not anything intrinsic.
      • But these experiential regularities are object-dependent, whereas the phenomenalist needs object-independent regularities concerning experiences alone.
      • This phenomenalist mathematical analysis seemed to reveal the gradual diversion of populations under specifiable selective pressures, as expected by traditional Darwinian gradualism.
      • Mach sought to reformulate Newtonian mechanics from a phenomenalist standpoint.
  • phenomenalistic

  • adjective fɪnɒmɪn(ə)ˈlɪstɪk
    Philosophy
    • The ontology is phenomenalistic in its leanings, though open to a more physicalistic interpretation.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • A few years later, Carnap realized that this thesis was untenable because a phenomenalistic language is insufficient to define physical concepts.
 
 

Definition of phenomenalism in US English:

phenomenalism

nounfəˈnämənəlˌizəmfəˈnɑmənəlˌɪzəm
Philosophy
  • The doctrine that human knowledge is confined to or founded on the realities or appearances presented to the senses.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Edwards' occasionalism, idealism, and mental phenomenalism provide a philosophical interpretation of God's absolute sovereignty: God is the only real cause and the only true substance.
    • The movement of Ayer's own thought has been from phenomenalism to what he describes in his latest treatment of the topic as ‘a sophisticated form of realism’.
    • This book, together with a paper entitled The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics published in the same year, represents an excursus by Russell into something like phenomenalism.
    • Similarly, the emphasis on the translation of concepts into measures is symptomatic of the principle of phenomenalism that is also a feature of positivism.
    • Thus phenomenalism sought to reduce all statements to statements about immediately perceived sense-data.
 
 
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