Meaning

1 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A philosophical position holding that everything which exists is no more extensive than its physical properties; that is, that there are no kinds of things other than physical things, which all are of logically procedural nature, based on fundamental laws at their deepest level of causality.

More definitions
  • (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality

Translations

2 languages

Forms

plural: physicalisms
Singularphysicalism
Pluralphysicalisms

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality:materialism

Antonyms

1 antonyms
philosophy:idealism

Word family

2 related words

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