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anti-metaphysicalism

anti-metaphysicalism is the alternative form of antimetaphysicalism.

Meaning of antimetaphysicalism

Noun

antimetaphysicalism (uncountable)

  1. The denial of any metaphysics that is not grounded in science and positivism.
    • Thus, the theory of history served as a powerful pragmatic reinforcement, in Comte's scheme, for the epistemological premises of positivism—relentless phenomenalism, antimetaphysicalism, and unitarian hierarchy of knowledge.2004, John H. Zammito, A Nice Derangement of Epistemes, →ISBN

Questions about anti-metaphysicalism

What is anti-metaphysicalism the alternative form of?
Anti-metaphysicalism is the alternative form of antimetaphysicalism.

Words near anti-metaphysicalism in the dictionary

  1. anti-McCollough effect
  2. anti-meme
  3. anti-memes
  4. anti-men
  5. anti-merger
  6. anti-metaphysicalism
  7. anti-metaphysics
  8. anti-microbial
  9. anti-Microsofter
  10. anti-Microsofters
  11. anti-migraine

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