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substantialist|səbˈstænʃəlɪst| Also with capital initial. [ad. G. substantialist, f. L. substantiālis substantial: see -ist.] 1. One of a sect of Lutherans in the 16th century who held that original sin was not an accident in human nature but belonged to its substance; a Flacian.
1657Gaule Sapientia Just. 10 That Original sin is not a vicious accident or adjunct, but is become our very Nature, Essence, and Substance;..so [maintain] the Flaccians, and Substantialists. 1847[see Flacian]. 2. One who holds a philosophical doctrine of substantialism.
1797in Monthly Mag. (1819) XLVIII. 112 May not the substantialists retort, there can be no sensations or ideas; for, take away all substantial matter,..and what will then have become of ideas? 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xvi. (1859) I. 294 Philosophers..are divided into Realists or Substantialists, and into Nihilists or Non-Substantialists. 1888Microcosm (N.Y.) Dec. 6 The conversational powers of the young substantialist [R. Rogers].
Add:B. adj. Of or pertaining to substantialism.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 352 Hume..proceeds..to fly to as great an extreme as the substantialist philosophers. 1986W. H. Newton-Smith in Flood & Lockwood Nature of Time iii. 29 We do not need to make such a controversial assumption in order to feel uncomfortable with this substantialist conception of space in the context of classical physics. |