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PHYSICALISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality
Synonyms:
materialism; physicalism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
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)
