materialist
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7.7
- noun
- /məˈtɪəriəlɪst/
- Specialized
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materialista
- In philosophical debates, a materialist perspective emphasizes the importance of matter over spiritual or abstract concepts.
- materialist worldview
- materialist explanation
- materialist theory
I think if you're a thorough going materialist, free will is impossible.
- I think if you're a thorough going materialist, free will is impossible.
- Am I losing my mind or is reality not what the materialists have said it is?
- Lovecraft is a, by his own own words, a scientific materialist.
- Excuse me, but I'm not the one claiming scientists have to be materialists.
- But the Stoics, you know, they were materialists, but they didn't say that everything was matter.
- Jim, where did you start on the spectrum of materialist to non materialist when you got into this work?
- And then he started thinking about, well, how does how does that even possible if if I'm a materialist?
- And for the materialist, there is only the this material thing, and that generates some models, and we are the result of these models.
- Now, I don't know how to explain nothing to materialist, but there's nothing there.
- There's the scientific materialist, medical, you know, research track.
- And I might give the same answers as a materialist or a duellist.
- Just to sort of lay this out for the materialist.
Examples
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And I think what they're saying fits in very well with materialist ways of looking at things.
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But there is something great in the materialist's claim for divinity; it is the result of his brains and effort.
Academic text (2001) -
The most common theory associated with the beginning of cities has a materialist basis.
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Jim, where did you start on the spectrum of materialist to non materialist when you got into this work?
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I come at everything from a very materialist standpoint.
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I think if you're a thorough going materialist, free will is impossible.
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Then, too, the Egyptians were materialists.
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The notion that economic power inevitably translates into geopolitical influence turned out to be a materialist illusion.
Academic text (1991) -
I argue here that gender disadvantage cannot be fathomed from a narrowly materialist perspective.
Academic text (1998) -
And it balances two seemingly contradictory conceptions of human beings: the materialist and humanistic.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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8.5
A person who believes everything is made of matter and explained by natural causes
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9.9
A philosopher who believes natural events are explained by physical causes
Antonyms
How Materialist
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Materialist comes from the Latin materia, meaning 'matter' or physical 'stuff', and the ending -ist, meaning 'a person'. So a materialist is someone who believes only physical 'matter' exists and that the mind and consciousness come from the body.