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词汇 physicalism
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Definition of physicalism in English:

physicalism

noun ˈfɪzɪk(ə)lɪz(ə)mˈfizəkəlˌizəm
mass nounPhilosophy
  • The doctrine that the real world consists simply of the physical world.

    〔哲〕物理主义(认为真实的世界仅由物质世界组成)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Another response by Heidegger to the metaphysics of physicalism is his emphasis on the centrality of mood to our everyday understanding of the world.
    • That does not require that in embracing naturalism one also embrace determinism, physicalism, and reductionism.
    • The most common opposing view has been materialism or physicalism, a philosophical position maintaining that everything, including mind, is essentially physical.
    • 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.
    • Amongst mainstream philosophers, discontent with physicalism led to a modest revival of property dualism in the last decade of the twentieth century.

Derivatives

  • physicalist

  • noun & adjective
    Philosophy
    • Epicurus was a thoroughgoing physicalist in his philosophy of mind.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • 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.
      • However, those who reject a physicalist ontology of consciousness must find ways of modeling it as a nonphysical aspect of reality.
      • In fact anomalous monism has proved to be a highly contentious position drawing criticism from both physicalists and non-physicalists alike.
      • Contrary to what your consult implies in his response, I am not a vitalist, a reductionist, or a physicalist.
  • physicalistic

  • adjective fɪzɪk(ə)ˈlɪstɪk
    Philosophy
    • Any construction of physicalistic discourse in terms of sense experience, logic, and set theory would have been seen as satisfactory if it made the physicalistic discourse come out right.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • 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.
      • Alternative hypotheses may be offered for the clinical phenomena that led Freud to propose a death instinct, but they all involve different forms of a less physicalistic object relations theory.
      • 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.

Definition of physicalism in US English:

physicalism

nounˈfizəkəlˌizəm
Philosophy
  • The doctrine that the real world consists simply of the physical world.

    〔哲〕物理主义(认为真实的世界仅由物质世界组成)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • 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.
    • Another response by Heidegger to the metaphysics of physicalism is his emphasis on the centrality of mood to our everyday understanding of the world.
    • The most common opposing view has been materialism or physicalism, a philosophical position maintaining that everything, including mind, is essentially physical.
    • 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.
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