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internalism

internalism noun: the doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis.

Noun

internalism (countable and uncountable, plural internalisms)

  1. The doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis
    • In fleshing out the relations of perceptual justification and perceptual content attribution, both contenders thus grant epistemic internalism.2008 August 30, Josefa Toribio, “State Versus Content: The Unfair Trial of Perceptual Nonconceptualism”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 3, →DOI

Forms of internalism

pluralinternalisms

Origin of internalism

From internal + -ism.

Questions about internalism

What does internalism mean?
Internalism means the doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such as motivation or justification, has an internal rather than external basis.
What part of speech is internalism?
Internalism is a noun.
What is the plural of internalism?
The plural of internalism is internalisms.

Words near internalism in the dictionary

  1. internalisations
  2. internalise
  3. internalised
  4. internalises
  5. internalising
  6. internalism
  7. internalisms
  8. internalist
  9. internalistic
  10. internalistically
  11. internalists

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