immaterialism
Americannoun
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the doctrine that there is no material world, but that all things exist only in and for minds.
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the doctrine that only immaterial substances or spiritual beings exist.
noun
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the doctrine that the material world exists only in the mind
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the doctrine that only immaterial substances or spiritual beings exist See also idealism
Other Word Forms
- immaterialist noun
Etymology
Origin of immaterialism
1705–15; immaterial + -ism, modeled on materialism
Example Sentences
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As George Berkeley, the 18th-century philosopher of immaterialism, might have asked: What are windows without window shoppers to see them?
From New York Times
Though the theology of Joseph Smith insists that immaterialism is an absurdity, yet it permits no overlapping of the earthly and the spiritual.
From Project Gutenberg
Soul, says Hegel, is not a separate and additional something over and above the rest of nature: it is rather nature's “'universal immaterialism, and simple ideal life77.”
From Project Gutenberg
Here we come upon the issue between materialism and immaterialism.
From Project Gutenberg
The latter branch, indeed, affords such decided proofs of immaterialism, as to have led several able materialists to change their views.
From Project Gutenberg
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