nonism

名词 n.

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名词 n.

The abstention from harmful activities, foods, and so on. uncountable
The stance that the nature of reality is unknowable because all information comes through the senses, which are unreliable. uncountable

— Neo-Platonism "tended to break the unity of life and thought which Christianity sought to establish," yet withal it prevented a too "facile nonism."
The denial of higher-level meaning beyond physical existence; materialism. uncountable

— Sir Oliver's standing as a scientist makes his book interesting as a statement of the reasons a scientist can give in opposition to the conclusions of materialistic nonism.
The belief in the existence of entities and events within a domain that can only be defined in terms of what it is not. uncountable

— Not really: fundamentality is a red herring, and the proponents of nonism have avoided Hempel’s dilemma only at the cost of emptying their position of any distinctives that might give the anti-physicalist reason to reject it (which, naturally, is not to say that the anti-physicalist should accept it).