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PHYSICALISM Synonyms

There are 4 synonyms of the word physicalism. (exact relations)
There are 2 hypernyms of the word physicalism. (close relations)
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materialism
nounn
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• a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

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

monism
nounn
noun

• the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element

naturalism
nounn
noun

• (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations

• an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description

reductionism
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• a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components

• the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents

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philosophical doctrinephilosophical theory

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