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akosmism

akosmism is the alternative form of acosmism.

Meaning of acosmism

Noun

acosmism (uncountable)

  1. A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.
  2. The determination of the world as mere phenomena to which true reality does not pertain.
    • "[Spinoza's] system would have to be designated not an 'atheism' but instead the reverse, an 'acosmism', since according to this philosophy there is actually no world at all in the sense of something positively being."1830, GWF Hegel, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences in Basic Outline Part 1: Logic, page 224

Questions about akosmism

What is akosmism the alternative form of?
Akosmism is the alternative form of acosmism.

Words near akosmism in the dictionary

  1. akontings
  2. Akopyan
  3. Akopyans
  4. akori
  5. akoria
  6. akosmism
  7. Akosu
  8. akoub
  9. akoulalion
  10. akousma
  11. akousmata

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