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单词 immaterialism
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Definition of immaterialism in English:

immaterialism

noun ɪməˈtɪərɪəlɪz(ə)mˌɪməˈtɪriəˌlɪzəm
mass noun
  • The belief that matter has no objective existence.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is less agreement on Berkeley's argumentative approach to idealism and immaterialism and on the role of some of his specific arguments.
    • The affinity between immaterialism and traditional religion is somewhat easier to understand.
    • It is possible that Johnson was attempting to disprove immaterialism by the physicality of the stone and its action on his foot.
    • What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang.
    • In 1709 he issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, followed in the next year by The Principles of Human Knowledge, the main exposition of his immaterialism.

Derivatives

  • immaterialist

  • noun ˌɪməˈtɪərɪəlɪstˌɪ(m)məˈtɪriələst
    • Philonous needs to convince him (as Berkeley needed to convince his readers in both books) that a commonsensical philosophy could be built on an immaterialist foundation, that no one but a skeptic or atheist would ever miss matter.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was an immaterialist: matter does not exist.
      • It remains to be seen how these earnest, almost-allover paintings - whose adamant corporeality must make an immaterialist's skin crawl - will play in a world of increasingly disembodied visual culture.
      • In my judgement, the key lies in the immaterialist conception of ‘body’ presupposed by the dynamical model of matter.
      • Rather, it's that the good arguments don't even get a hearing since they offer an immaterialist account, and immaterialist accounts can't really be knowledge.
 
 

Definition of immaterialism in US English:

immaterialism

nounˌɪməˈtɪriəˌlɪzəmˌiməˈtirēəˌlizəm
  • The belief that material things have no objective existence.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang.
    • It is possible that Johnson was attempting to disprove immaterialism by the physicality of the stone and its action on his foot.
    • In 1709 he issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, followed in the next year by The Principles of Human Knowledge, the main exposition of his immaterialism.
    • There is less agreement on Berkeley's argumentative approach to idealism and immaterialism and on the role of some of his specific arguments.
    • The affinity between immaterialism and traditional religion is somewhat easier to understand.
 
 
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