单词 | physicism |
释义 | physicismn. A theory of physical phenomena; esp. one which regards all phenomena as explicable in terms of physical or material forces; materialism. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > [noun] > a doctrine of physical phenomena physicism1860 1860 J. McCosh Intuitions of Mind 9 In the English-speaking nations there coexists with the old experiential spirit engendered by Locke..a determined recoil..against Lockism, and sensationalism, and the bony and haggard forms of physicism. 1869 T. H. Huxley Sci. Aspects Positivism in Lay Serm. (1870) viii. 163 In the progress of the species from savagery to advanced civilization, anthropomorphism grows into theology, and physicism (if I may so call it) develops into science. 1958 Compar. Lit. 10 291 Saint-Simon saw the history of man as the progressive replacement of supernatural religious conceptions by a new scientific religion of ‘physicism’. 1975 J. H. Hallowwell & E. Voegelin From Enlightenment to Revolution 40 In Helvétius this relationship with Locke is already strongly overlaid by physicism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1860 |
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