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Definition of Physicalism
1. Noun. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality.
Specialized synonyms: Dialectical Materialism
Category relationships: Philosophy
Generic synonyms: Philosophical Doctrine, Philosophical Theory
Derivative terms: Materialist
Definition of Physicalism
1. Noun. (philosophy) 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Physicalism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Physicalism
Literary usage of Physicalism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1867)
"... and bare physicalism—I use these rough expressions for the better understanding—making
an union which cannot but be incongruous, and which does not seem ..."
2. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1857)
"... and eschewing the extravagant physicalism of Michael Angelo, was by no means
such a purist in his artistic principles as his present biographer would ..."
3. Testimonium Animæ: Or, Greek and Roman Before Jesus Christ; a Series of by Ernest Gottlieb Sihler (1908)
"... more vigor than by the noted historian, Johann Gustav Droysen, in his critique
of Buckle's injection of physicalism into history and historiography. ..."
4. Jacques Loeb: His Science and Social Activism and Their Philosophical by Charles Rasmussen, Rick Tilman (1998)
"... this criticism was true of the nineteenth-century tendency toward physicalism
in, for example, the biological work of Jacques Loeb. ..."
5. Ioläus: An Anthology of Friendship by Edward Carpenter (1906)
"... his affection;" and again:—"The higher element of that love of man to man
consisted even in this: that it excluded the motive of egoistic physicalism. ..."
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