substantialism

9.9

Belief that the world is made of things that exist on their own rather than of change

noun
/səbˈstænʃəˌlɪzəm/

Specialized

: sustancialismo

Philosophers often debate the implications of substantialism on our understanding of existence.

Examples

In his lecture, he explained how substantialism contrasts with relational theories of reality.
The book provides a thorough analysis of substantialism and its impact on metaphysics.
A critique of substantialism in modern and medieval epistemology and logic.

Academic text (1993)
According to this work, which had an unfortunate editorial history, the trajectory of individuation within Western thinking has been governed by two main paradigms: substantialism and hylomorphism.

Academic text (2017)
It also renounces propositionalism, the attempt to reduce all rules of reasoning to the terms of propositional logic, since this provides the logical grounds for substantialism.

Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

materialism

vssubstantialism

Specialized

7 7.4

The belief that only physical things are real and minds come from them

focuses on reality as independent things rather than on processes or relations

physicalism

vssubstantialism

Specialized

3 9.9

A view that only matter and its properties exist

emphasizes things as primary, not processes or relations

Surface Forms

substantialism singular

substantialisms plural

Morphology

substantialism = substantial (transparent) = substance + ial + ism

Formed by adding the doctrinal suffix '-ism' to the adjective 'substantial', yielding a doctrine related to substance in a straightforward way.

Etymology

Substantialism comes from substance, which itself breaks into sub- 'under' and -stance 'stand', giving the picture of things that 'stand under' or support reality. That's why substantialism is the idea that reality is made of stable, independent things called substances, rather than only processes or relations.