Definition of Physicalist

1. Noun. A believer in physicalism. ¹

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Definition of Physicalist

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Physicalist

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physical topology
physical training
physical value
physicalism
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physicalist (current term)
physicalistic
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physically challenged

Literary usage of Physicalist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"This is a sub-thesis of the general thesis of physicalism, ie that the physicalist language is a universal language (1932/3:107). ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1877)
"Thus, while Pascal may have felt, more than was possible to Montaigne, the force, as against religion, of the merely physicalist and positivist tendency, ..."

3. The Physiologia of Jean Fernel (1567) by Jean Fernel (2003)
"... by placing his emphasis on the agents of change rather than on the nature of the change, was taking a much more physicalist view of chemistry than the ..."

4. Contrasts in Scientific Style: Research Groups in the Chemical and by Joseph S. Fruton (1990)
"0 This physicalist attitude was expressed in the great interest among physiologists in the kind of adsorption phenomena studied intensively by Ostwald's ..."

5. The Apocalyptic Politics of Richard Price and Joseph Priestley: A Study in by Jack Fruchtman (1983)
"389-95; and Schofield, "Joseph Priestley and the physicalist Tradition in British Chemistry," in ¡oseph Priestley: Scientist, Theologian, and Metaphysician, ..."

6. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1879)
"... he came nearer to a puzzled groper after an immaterial philosophy than to a physicalist resting content in a corpuscular solution of the origin of life. ..."

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