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physicalism Philos.|ˈfɪzɪkəlɪz(ə)m|
[f. physical a. 2 + -ism.]
A term originally used by members of the Vienna Circle for the theory that all science must eventually be capable of being expressed in the language of physics.
1931O. Neurath in Monist XLI. 618 (title) Physicalism: the philosophy of the Viennese Circle. Ibid. 620 In a sense unified science is physics in its largest aspect, a tissue of laws expressing time-space linkages—let us call it: Physicalism. 1936L. Bloomfield in Language XII. 93 The testing of this hypothesis of physicalism will be a task of the next generations, and linguists will have to perform an important part of the work. 1940B. Russell Inquiry into Meaning & Truth 93 The thesis which Carnap calls ‘physicalism’, which maintains that all science can be expressed in the language of physics. 1965Language XLI. 196 He [sc. Bloomfield]..recommended a policy known first as ‘mechanism’ or ‘anti⁓mentalism’, later as ‘physicalism’ which..amounted to the emancipation of linguistics from irrelevant psychologizing... Bloomfield himself was not able to pursue this policy with complete success. 1972Science 16 June 1204/3 Science has been..historically associated with a philosophy of physicalism, the belief that reality is all reducible to certain kinds of physical entities. 1975Jrnl. Philos. LXXII. 565 Physicalism does not entail reductionism, at least if we follow Hellman and Thompson in taking reductionism to mean explicit definability. |