Word.ws English Dictionary

mysterianism

mysterianism noun: the view that the explanation of consciousness is not possible by humans.

Noun

mysterianism (uncountable)

  1. The view that the explanation of consciousness is not possible by humans.
    • The latter contention may be motivated in one of two ways: either by appeal to positively characterized and seemingly conflictive features of the mental and the physical (in which case we might always reject dualism in favor of a materialist mysterianism such as McGinn’s 1999 ), or simply by...2007 August 9, Neal Judisch, “Why ‘non-mental’ won’t work: on Hempel’s dilemma and the characterization of the ‘physical’”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, →DOI

Words formed from mysterianism

Questions about mysterianism

What does mysterianism mean?
Mysterianism means the view that the explanation of consciousness is not possible by humans.
What part of speech is mysterianism?
Mysterianism is a noun.

Words near mysterianism in the dictionary

  1. mystecetes
  2. mysterama
  3. mysteria
  4. mysterial
  5. mysterian
  6. mysterianism
  7. mysterianist
  8. mysterianists
  9. mysterians
  10. mysteriarch
  11. mysteriarchs

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mysterianism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “mysterianism.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/mysterianism. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.