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coincidentalism

coincidentalism noun: a philosophy of coincidents.

Noun

coincidentalism (uncountable)

  1. A philosophy of coincidents
    • The fact that three-dimensionalist coincidentalism faces problems concerning how an object’s temporal trajectory is determined did not play a central role in this paper because this fact is well known.2007 July 18, Thomas Sattig, “Identity in 4D”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI

Origin of coincidentalism

From coincidental + -ism.

Questions about coincidentalism

What does coincidentalism mean?
Coincidentalism means a philosophy of coincidents.
What part of speech is coincidentalism?
Coincidentalism is a noun.

Words near coincidentalism in the dictionary

  1. coincidency
  2. coincident
  3. coincident indicator
  4. coincident indicators
  5. coincidental
  6. coincidentalism
  7. coincidentally
  8. coincidently
  9. coincidents
  10. coincider
  11. coinciders

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