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Webster 1913 Edition


Immaterialism

Imˊma-te′ri-al-ism

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
immatérialisme
.]
1.
The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.
2.
(Philos.)
The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley’s theory of idealism.

Webster 1828 Edition


Immaterialism

IMMATE'RIALISM

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Noun.
The doctrine of the existence or state of immaterial substances or spiritual beings.