Machismn.
/ˈmɑːkɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmakɪz(ə)m/, /ˈmɑːxɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈmɑkɪzəm/, /ˈmɑxɪzəm/ Philosophy.
The theories of Ernst Mach, esp. his concept of empirio-criticism adopted from Richard Avenarius.Empirio-criticism was attacked by Russian Marxists around the time of the first Russian revolution (1905). Many uses of the Russian term maxizm, as well as the earliest examples of English Machism and its derivatives, are traceable to the protracted political discussion which arose in Russia as a result.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [noun] > positivism > Machism and its adherents
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1927 D. Kvitko tr. V. Lenin Materialism i. 69 In philosophical literature, writers of various tendencies have long since discovered the chief sin of Machism in spite of all its covering.
1949 P. Frank Mod. Sci. & its Philos. x. 194 A logical contradiction exists only between a metaphysically conceived Machism, which is then subjective idealism, and a metaphysically conceived materialism, which accepts only matter as having existence.
1972 J. T. Blackmore E. Mach xiv. 214 If we may define ‘pure Machism’ as a phenomenalism hostile to atomism and theoretical physics, [etc.].
1992 Isis 83 46 Thus Carnap and Schlick could argue in their letters as late as 1926 about what Machism really meant.
Derivatives
ˈMachist n. and adj.
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1934 V. Adoratsky Dialectical Materialism iii. 43 His [sc. Lenin's] philosophical polemic against the Machists—Materialism and Empiro-Criticism.
1961 D. Joravsky Soviet Marxism & Natural Sci. ii. 28 In 1905..Plekhanov, accusing the Bolsheviks of deviating towards Blanquism in politics, suggested that ‘Machist’ philosophical revisionism was a contributing cause.
1989 Brit. Jrnl. Philos. Sci. 40 525 Planck's recommendation..persuaded the Prague Commission which included two Machists, Georg Pick and Anton Lampa, to recommend Einstein.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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