Definitions for phenomenalism

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phenomenalism phe·nom·e·nal·ism

Spelling: [fi-nom-uh-nl-iz-uh m]

IPA: /fɪˈnɒm ə nlˌɪz əm/

Phenomenalism is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 27 points.

You can make 1567 anagrams from letters in phenomenalism (aeehilmmnnops).

Definitions for phenomenalism

noun

1. the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
2. the view that all things, including human beings, consist simply of the aggregate of their observable, sensory qualities.

Origin of phenomenalism

First recorded in 1860-65; phenomenal + -ism

Examples for phenomenalism

The proper names for these opposite conceptions are of course Noumenalism and phenomenalism.

Kants Critical position is more correctly described as phenomenalism than as subjectivism.

In other words, is Kants position subjectivism or phenomenalism?

Similarly a phenomenalism, like that of Hume, takes immediate presence to sense as the norm of being and knowledge.

In so far as subjectivism reduces reality to states of knowledge, such as perceptions or ideas, it is phenomenalism.

But he differs both from Malebranche and from Hume in that he develops his phenomenalism on rationalist lines.