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单词 externalism
释义

externalism

/ɪkˈstəːn(ə)lɪz(ə)m / /ɛkˈstəːn(ə)lɪz(ə)m/
noun [mass noun]
1Excessive regard for outward form in religion: religion needs to be questioned for its negative attitudes, hypocrisy, and externalism...
  • Having established the principle which condemned religious externalism, Jesus went on to give specific examples of its practice.
  • Eventually, he argued, this is what in fact happened so that the prophets faced a dead externalism in religious practice and a mechanical routine in religious thought.
2 Philosophy The view that mental events and acts are essentially dependent on the world external to the mind, in opposition to the Cartesian separation of mental and physical worlds.By considering a series of examples, I shall attempt to exhibit as clearly as possible the fundamental intuition about epistemic rationality that externalism seems to violate....
  • However, one may draw rather different conclusions from the Cartesian thought experiment - turning it against externalism.
  • So externalism poses no extra challenge to functionalism.

Derivatives

externalist

noun & adjective ...
  • Still, the externalist conception of justified belief does seem descriptive, whereas the internalist conception is explicitly regulative.
  • Moreover, there are general reasons for thinking that phenomenal sameness is not always sufficient for sameness of thought - this is a principle which externalists defend.
  • Other philosophers have argued for an externalist conception of mental content, according to which meaning is fixed by the social context, more particularly the language community.
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