mathematicismn.
/ˌmaθ(ə)ˈmatᵻsɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌmæθ(ə)ˈmædəˌsɪzəm/ Philosophy.
The view or belief that everything can be described ultimately in mathematical terms, or that the universe is fundamentally mathematical.
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number theory1899
mathematicism1917
proof theory1929
finitism1935
constructivism1959
1917 D. Ainslie tr. B. Croce Logic as Sci. of Pure Concept iii. ii. 406 (title) Æstheticism, empiricism and mathematicism [It. L'estetismo, l'empirismo e il matematismo].
1917 D. Ainslie tr. B. Croce Logic as Sci. of Pure Concept iii. ii. 415 Mathematicism [It. il matematismo] is much rarer than empiricism, because the confusion between thinking and calculating is less easy than that between thinking and classifying.
1919 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 16 179 Either representation or one of the pseudo-concepts may be taken for the pure concept, giving rise either to estheticism, empiricism or mathematicism.
1933 Mind 42 107 Russell..is dismissed on the grounds that his subjectivism rests on a surreptitious basis of realism, that his mathematicism ignores qualities.
1962 L. J. Cohen Diversity of Meaning i. 19 Forgotten principles, like the mathematicism of Plato's Timaeus.
1990 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 51 610 With this reaction against mathematicism and mechanism he comes..close to Schelling's romantic Naturphilosophie.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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