cosmotheticadj.
/kɒzməʊˈθɛtɪk/ That posits or assumes an external world. Cosmothetic Idealism, a term applied by Hamilton to that theory of perception which posits the existence of an external world, while denying that we have any immediate knowledge of it.
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a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) I. xvi. 295 Those..Hypothetical Dualists or Cosmothetic Idealists.
1868 A. Bain Mental & Moral Sci. 209 The phrase ‘Cosmothetic Idealism’; meaning that an External World is supposed apart from our mental perception, as the inconceivable and incomprehensible cause of that perception.
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