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mathematicalism

mathematicalism noun: the view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.

Noun

mathematicalism (uncountable)

  1. The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.
    • And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre).2004, Michał Kokowski, Copernicusʹs Originality: Towards Integration of Contemporary Copernican Studies

Origin of mathematicalism

From mathematical + -ism.

Questions about mathematicalism

What does mathematicalism mean?
Mathematicalism means the view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.
What part of speech is mathematicalism?
Mathematicalism is a noun.

Words near mathematicalism in the dictionary

  1. mathematical space
  2. mathematical spaces
  3. mathematical statistics
  4. mathematical structure
  5. mathematical structures
  6. mathematicalism
  7. mathematicality
  8. mathematicalize
  9. mathematicalized
  10. mathematicalizes
  11. mathematicalizing

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