panpsychist
panpsychist adjective: pertaining to, or in accordance with, the doctrine of panpsychism.
Adjective
panpsychist (comparative more panpsychist, superlative most panpsychist)
- Pertaining to, or in accordance with, the doctrine of panpsychism.
- Santayana was certainly not a panpsychist. However, I believe that there are panpsychist tendencies in his work.1984, Timothy Sprigge, Santayana and Panpsychism, in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 2: Fall 1984, page 1
- Meditational practices are quite consistent with, and even conducive to, a panpsychist outlook, but the aim of panpsychism is not to attain enlightenment.2003, Freya Mathews, For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, SUNY Press, page 110
Noun
panpsychist (plural panpsychists)
- A proponent of panpsychism.
- As the philosopher Philip Goff, one of the most prominent contemporary panpsychists, has pointed out, our belief that science will solve the mystery of consciousness, given that it triumphed in so many other areas, ignores that its success was predicated in the first place on the exclusion of the...2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 9, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN
Forms of panpsychist
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more panpsychist |
| superlative | most panpsychist |
| Noun | |
| plural | panpsychists |
Origin of panpsychist
From panpsychism + -ist.
Questions about panpsychist
- What does panpsychist mean?
- Panpsychist means pertaining to, or in accordance with, the doctrine of panpsychism.
- What part of speech is panpsychist?
- Panpsychist can be an adjective or a noun.
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