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aspectism

aspectism noun: the belief that apparently distinct features of a person (such as body vs. soul) are actually just different aspects, or ways of looking at, of a unified entity.

Noun

aspectism (uncountable)

  1. The belief that apparently distinct features of a person (such as body vs. soul) are actually just different aspects, or ways of looking at, of a unified entity.
    • But despite the admonition, this triple aspectism disintegrates as the volume becomes divided into three parts, knowledge, feeling, and will.1949, Benjamin Wolstein, Experience and valuation: a study in John Dewey's naturalism, page 12
    • ...and in his zeal to do justice to all the facts his categories proliferate into at least 25 or 26 pairs of polar opposites, each pair of which may be discussed in terms of his nine types—onepole-ism, other-pole-ism, dualism, and aspectism, each in both extreme and modified forms, and organicism...1958, The Journal of Philosophy - Volume 55, page 56

Origin of aspectism

From aspect + -ism.

Questions about aspectism

What does aspectism mean?
Aspectism means the belief that apparently distinct features of a person (such as body vs. soul) are actually just different aspects, or ways of looking at, of a unified entity.
What part of speech is aspectism?
Aspectism is a noun.

Words near aspectism in the dictionary

  1. aspectant
  2. aspected
  3. aspecting
  4. aspection
  5. aspections
  6. aspectism
  7. aspective
  8. AspectJ
  9. aspectless
  10. aspectlessness
  11. aspectological

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