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单词 physicalism
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physicalism

/ˈfɪzɪk(ə)lɪz(ə)m /
noun [mass noun] Philosophy
The doctrine that the real world consists simply of the physical world.That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism....
  • Amongst mainstream philosophers, discontent with physicalism led to a modest revival of property dualism in the last decade of the twentieth century.
  • Nor are metaphysicians solely concerned with the nature of the physical world - unless they happen to espouse the doctrine of physicalism, which maintains that the only things that exist are physical entities in space and time.

Derivatives

physicalist

noun & adjective ...
  • However, those who reject a physicalist ontology of consciousness must find ways of modeling it as a nonphysical aspect of reality.
  • For all that the argument from charity shows, when it comes to disputes like that between an animist and a physicalist, relativism could be the right view.
  • Epicurus was a thoroughgoing physicalist in his philosophy of mind.

physicalistic

/fɪzɪk(ə)ˈlɪstɪk/ adjective ...
  • The ontology is phenomenalistic in its leanings, though open to a more physicalistic interpretation.
  • According to this argument, physicalism requires that all phenomena be susceptible in principle of a physicalistic explanation.
  • Predicate dualism is the theory that psychological or mentalistic predicates are essential for a full description of the world and are not reducible to physicalistic predicates.
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