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physicalist|ˈfɪzɪkəlɪst|
[f. physical a. (and n.) + -ist.]
1. Philos. (See quots.)
1858Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. i. (1864) 23 Physicalists, who, without pretending to deny Christianity, value them⁓selves on finding all the laws of obligation..in the laws of the body and the world. 1864Webster, Physicalist, one who holds that human thoughts and acts are determined by the physical organization of man.
2. One who adheres to the theory of physicalism. Also as adj., of or pertaining to such a theory.
1934Times Lit. Suppl. 5 July 479/1 The paper now translated was first published in 1932..under the title of ‘Physicalist language as the Universal Language of Science’. 1937J. R. Firth Tongues of Men ix. 119 Let us turn to the ‘physicalists’ or ‘methodical materialists’ of the Vienna Circle. 1956A. J. Ayer Probl. Knowl. 214 To apply the physicalist thesis to one's own experiences, is, as it were, to pretend to be anaesthetized. 1959H. Kuhn in P. A. Schilpp Philos. C. D. Broad xx. 606 The German Geisteswissenschaft and Phenomenology..have labored to rouse modern thought from its dogmatic physicalist slumber. 1972R. Plant in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind III. iii. 69 The relationship [between behaviour and pain] is not an external, contingent one as the dualist would suggest, nor is it a necessary one as the behaviourist or physicalist would claim. 1973A. J. Ayer Cent. Questions Philos. vi. 126 Materialists, or physicalists as they are now more often called, who deny the existence of mental as opposed to physical events. |