Materialism Synonyms

mə-tîrē-ə-lĭzəm
The philosophic doctrine that matter is the only reality and that everything in the world, including thought, will, and feeling, can be explained in terms of matter alone
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. heterodoxy
  2. physicalism
  3. philistinism
  4. physicism
  5. pragmatism
  6. utilitarianism

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Materialism Sentence Examples

  • Metaphysical materialism is the view that everything known is body or matter; but while according to ancient materialists soul is only another body, according to modern materialists mind without soul is only an attribute or function of body.

  • But Leibnitz's conception of the priority of spirit had too little foundation, and the different elements he sought to combine were too loosely related to one another to stand the strain of the two forces of empiricism and materialism that were opposed to his idealism.

  • True materialism includes theism.

  • It might seem, indeed, that Stoicism indicates a falling off from Plato and Aristotle towards materialism, but the ethical dualism, which was the ruling tendency of the Stoa, could not long endure its materialistic physics, and took refuge in the metaphysical dualism of the Platonists.

  • Objections to the belief in immortality have been advanced from the standpoints of materialism, naturalism, pessimism and pantheism.

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