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immaterialism

[ im-uh-teer-ee-uh-liz-uhm ]

noun

  1. the doctrine that there is no material world, but that all things exist only in and for minds.
  2. the doctrine that only immaterial substances or spiritual beings exist.


immaterialism

/ ˌɪəˈɪəɪəˌɪə /

noun

  1. the doctrine that the material world exists only in the mind
  2. the doctrine that only immaterial substances or spiritual beings exist See also idealism
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈٱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • m·ٱ۾·· noun
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of immaterialism1

1705–15; immaterial + -ism, modeled on materialism
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As George Berkeley, the 18th-century philosopher of immaterialism, might have asked: What are windows without window shoppers to see them?

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Though the theology of Joseph Smith insists that immaterialism is an absurdity, yet it permits no overlapping of the earthly and the spiritual.

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Soul, says Hegel, is not a separate and additional something over and above the rest of nature: it is rather nature's “'universal immaterialism, and simple ideal life77.”

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Here we come upon the issue between materialism and immaterialism.

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At what age of the Christian Church this heresy of immaterialism or masked atheism, crept in, I do not exactly know.

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