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.
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.