immaterialismn.

1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous iii. 152 You tell me, indeed, of a Repugnancy between the Mosaic History and Immaterialism.

1777 J. Berington (title) Immaterialism Delineated, or a view of the First Principles of Things.

1818 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. July 3/1 Those who assert that matter has no existence, the earth and skies.., the human frame and all its sensations, being but one grand illusion... This may be called immaterialism.

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 237 Berkeley maintains, that objects of sense are only ideas, they having no existence in themselves and apart from perception. This is immaterialism.

1915 Mind 24 314 An immaterialism or pure subjective idealism, which he [sc. A. C. Fraser] here calls ‘Pan-egoism’.

1956 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 17 148 He traces the beginnings of immaterialism to Berkeley's arguments against matter.

2008 P. Russell Riddle of Hume's Treat. iii. xiii. 170 The world of (common sense) immaterialism, therefore, consists only of Ideas and Spirits.

1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit xvi. 217 Nothing was necessary to make the doctrine of the schoolmen a complete system of immaterialism, but the omission of a few positions which were inconsistent with it. But in the same proportion in which we cut off from spirit every property that it was supposed to have in common with matter, we bring it to a state in which it is naturally impossible to act on matter.

1825 Freethinking Christians' Q. Reg. 2 24 If the doctrine of immaterialism be scriptural, the soul is never deposited in the grave—it cannot be destroyed there, being..indestructible.

1865 Anthropol. Rev. 3 146 The opposite theory (called immaterialism, or anti-materialism) is that, besides matter, there is a second original entity or primary element in nature, under the name of ‘mind’ or ‘spirit’, and that this does not in any sense result from, or depend for its existence upon, matter.

1915 W. Riley Amer. Thought iv. 117 The true mystic conviction that spirit can conquer matter..has again come to life and we have an immaterialism of the present day.

1989 T. Irwin Aristotle's First Princ. xiii. 294 We may still agree that the subjects of these mental properties are also material, if we reject immaterialism about the soul.

2009 S. Hetherington Yes, but how do you Know? vi. 100 Immaterialism claims to describe what minds are like, if there are any: they would be non-physical, not constituted by physical matter.