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PHYSICALISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does physicalism mean?
• PHYSICALISM (noun)
The noun PHYSICALISM has 1 sense:
1. (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
Familiarity information: PHYSICALISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
materialism; physicalism
Hypernyms ("physicalism" is a kind of...):
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
Domain category:
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "physicalism"):
dialectical materialism (the materialistic philosophy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)
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