Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who adheres to the doctrine of substantialism.
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Examples
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A substantialist may either deny or accept that there is an operation of conjunction on facts.
Facts Mulligan, Kevin 2007
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I called the account of personhood militating against abortion and euthanasia the substantialist account, and the opposite the functionalist account.
Anthropology, not anthropologists Mike L 2005
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I called the account of personhood militating against abortion and euthanasia the substantialist account, and the opposite the functionalist account.
Archive 2005-11-01 Mike L 2005
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With such a view of time and with their anticipation of the law of constancy of matter, the atomists greatly strengthened the static and substantialist modes of thought.
TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968
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I have already said that the substantialist thesis endeavours to establish a continuity between one consciousness and another separated by time, by supposing a something durable, of which the consciousness would be a property of intermittent manifestation.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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But the next step is to place him against the background of the anti-substantialist emptiness thinking that culminates in the Perfection of Wisdom sutras.
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If one places the stress on dependent co-origination, emptiness is merely a safeguard against substantialist misinterpretations of this doctrine.
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I agree with Garfield that Nâgârjuna accepts conditions as describing "the kind of association he endorses as an analysis of dependent arising" (104), while rejecting causes as a substantialist delusion.
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The purging of time-ideas by dialectical reasoning, and the use of time to undermine substantialist beliefs, can be found in the Kathâvatthu more than three centuries before Nagârjuna's time:
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Perhaps the most crucial hermeneutic tip the reader of Nâgârjuna should follow is to bear in mind the basic Buddhist doctrine of dependent origination and to watch for how Nâgârjuna undoes substantialist and annihilationist misreadings of the doctrine, which themselves would need to be precisely defined.
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