- physicalism
- belief that all phenomena reducible to verifiable assertions
Phrontistery dictionary. 2013.
physicalism
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physicalism — noun Date: 1931 a thesis that the descriptive terms of scientific language are reducible to terms which refer to spatiotemporal things or events or to their properties • physicalist noun or adjective • physicalistic adjective … New Collegiate Dictionary
physicalism — physicalist, n., adj. /fiz i keuh liz euhm/, n. a doctrine associated with logical positivism and holding that every meaningful statement, other than the necessary statements of logic and mathematics, must refer directly or indirectly to… … Universalium
physicalism — noun A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things … Wiktionary
physicalism — n. (Philosophy) form of materialism, philosophical doctrine or belief that matter and physical properties are the only reality … English contemporary dictionary
physicalism — noun Philosophy the doctrine that the real world consists simply of the physical world. Derivatives physicalist noun & adjective physicalistic adjective … English new terms dictionary
physicalism — phys·i·cal·ism … English syllables
