phenomenistn.adj.
/fᵻˈnɒmᵻnɪst/, U.S. /fᵻˈnɑmənəst/ Philosophy. Now chiefly historical.
A. n.
A phenomenalist. Now rare.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [noun] > phenomenalism or action of phenomenalizing > adherent of
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1871 W. G. Ward Ess. Philos. Theism (1884) I. 1 English philosophers..may be divided into two sharply contrasted classes, whom we may call objectivists and phenomenists respectively.
1908 Mind 17 398 Dr. Becher first observes that by the phenomenists the immediate certainty of the given is not contested.
1917 P. Coffey Epistemology II. iv. xv. 52 Kant..and English phenomenists, admit the validity of causality..as applied within the whole domain of empirical consciousness.
B. adj.
Phenomenalist.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adjective] > relating to phenomenalism
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1871 Dublin Rev. Oct. 309 No one will doubt, either that the phenomenist school professes the general doctrine we have ascribed to it, or that Mr. Mill habitually identifies himself with this school.
1897 Mind 6 132 He [sc. Giacomo Laviosa] accepts as much of Auguste Comte's system as can be brought into harmony with the modern phenomenist and evolutionary school principally represented by Mr. Spencer.
1928 L. A. Clare tr. J. Chevalier Henri Bergson i. 5 Mill did not succeed in explaining how the liberty, unity, and identity of the personality any more than the validity of reason could be safeguarded in the phenomenist theory.
1993 T. L. S. Sprigge James & Bradley i. iii. §2 135 Ford..marshals the evidence for James's panpsychic convictions both before and after the phenomenist period.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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