Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that behind phenomena there are substantial realities, or real substances, whether mental or corporeal.
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- noun philosophy The doctrine that
substantial reality is the basis of allphenomena
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Examples
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True to the “middle way” of Buddhism, Kûkai treads a path that avoids reifying substantialism on the one hand as well as utter nihilism on the other hand.
Laughter 2009
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In this lecture Dr. Alan Wallace will discuss Western and Buddhist approaches to relativity that avoid the philosophical extremes of substantialism and nihilism.
B Alan Wallace - Dependent Origination in Buddhism and Science William Harryman 2009
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Dynamism in general may be adapted to and modified by such philosophical systems as determinism or freedom, substantialism or phenomenalism, idealism or realism, monism or theism, etc.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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We know that it is in this manner that Berkeley conquered corporeal substantialism and taught phenomenism; while Hume, more radical than he, went so far as to question the substantialism of mind.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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In general, phenomenism is opposed to substantialism, and it is supposed that those who do not accept the former doctrine must accept the latter, while, on the contrary, those who reject substantialism must be phenomenists.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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I think it would be better to speak of the perpetuity rather than the eternity of the now, since the phenomenon in question is a modest, empirical one, not some theological claim, and the word "eternal" inevitably attracts the suspicion of substantialism
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I'm just an apologist for Frankish substantialism and totalitarianism and puritanism and individualism and rationalism and ...
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While avoiding causal substantialism, Garfield here strongly affirms the reality of time as a set of relations.
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Bugault's comment on MMK 4. 8-9 is illuminating on this strategy of smoking out substantialism as it retreats from one lair to another:
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Thus we are neither adherents of phenomenism, nor of substantialism.] [Footnote 27: I borrow from RABIER this argument, which has thoroughly convinced me (see _Psychologie_, p. 281).] [Footnote 28: PILON is the psychologist who has the most forcibly demonstrated that resemblance acts before being perceived.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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