physical'istic

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physicalism (ˈfɪzɪkəˌlɪzəm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
philosophy logical positivism See also identity theory the doctrine that all phenomena can be described in terms of space and time and that all meaningful statements are either analytic, as in logic and mathematics, or can be reduced to empirically verifiable assertions
 
'physicalist
 
n, —adj
 
physical'istic
 
adj

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