substantialismn.
/səbˈstanʃəlɪz(ə)m/, /səbˈstanʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, /səbˈstɑːnʃəlɪz(ə)m/, /səbˈstɑːnʃl̩ɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˌsəbˈstæn(t)ʃəˌlɪzəm/ Philosophy.
Any of various theories according to which particular phenomena are substances (substance n. 2) or are to be explained by the existence of underlying substances (cf. substance n. 4a); belief in such substances; spec. the theory or belief that the soul is a substance.
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substantialism1859
1859 in W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics II. Index 549/2 Substantialism divided into Hypothetical Dualism or Cosmothetic Idealism, and Monism or Unitarianism.
1888 Microcosm (N.Y.) Dec. 3 The fundamental tenet..of Substantialism maintains that besides the material substances in the general constitution of Nature there are also forms of immaterial substance.
1914 Philos. Rev. 23 629 With respect to his conception of the Ego, the author adopts the attitude neither of a positivistic phenomenalism nor a metaphysical substantialism.
1930 M. Gabain tr. J. Piaget Child's Conception of Physical Causality 305 The affinity existing between Aristotelian substantialism and the pseudo-ideal of traditional deduction.
1949 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 10 237 That substantialism has been abandoned by new physics can be seen from..the tendency to resolve structure into function.
1980 F. B. Wallack Epochal Nature of Process in Whitehead's Metaphysics 4 For Whitehead, scientific materialism has its basis in substantialism.
2001 Philos. East & West 51 519 To fall back from a view of emptiness into a barely disguised substantialism about the self.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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