| 释义 |
eˈternalism rare.
[f. prec. + -ism.]
The condition of being eternal; an eternal character or nature.
1889Boyd Carpenter Bampton Lect. Pref. xvii, Religion gives a sort of Eternalism to Righteousness.
Restrict rare to sense in Dict. and add: [a.] (Later example.)
1940E. T. Bell Devel. Math. xxii. 510 Divested of its mythical raiment of eternalism, mathematics will then be recognized for what it has always been, a humanly constructed language.
b. Philos. The theory or belief that the universe is eternal, having no beginning or end.
1951R. M. Millard in Philos. Forum Spring 17 Whitehead would seem to have had a propensity for the eternalism or non-Temporalism which the major emphasis of his general metaphysical position should have caused him to reject. 1971Internat. Jrnl. Middle East Stud. II. 67 If eternalism is tantamount to atheism, it is the argument from creation alone which can prove that God exists. 1989Nature 23 Feb. 698/2 Newtonian eternalism, or huttonian uniformitarianism..are not alternatives to the slings and arrows of chaos and catastrophe. |