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descendentalism

descendentalism noun: a doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.

Noun

descendentalism (uncountable)

  1. A doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.
    • Epistemological descendentalism withdraws from the celestial, and infernal, regions to matter of fact; it presumes that, in a world of universal evil, no other realm can or need be sought but that in which man comes to know the evil which is his life.1974, Robert Currie, Genius: an ideology in literature

Origin of descendentalism

From descendental + -ism.

Questions about descendentalism

What does descendentalism mean?
Descendentalism means a doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.
What part of speech is descendentalism?
Descendentalism is a noun.

Words near descendentalism in the dictionary

  1. descendence
  2. descendences
  3. descendency
  4. descendent
  5. descendental
  6. descendentalism
  7. descendentalist
  8. descendentalists
  9. descendents
  10. descender
  11. descenders

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