phenomenalism
noun
the doctrine that phenomena are the only objects of knowledge or the only form of reality.
phenomenalist
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a word derived from
phenomenalism.
Example Sentences
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There is no feeling and no volition which is not for the phenomenalist a content of consciousness and nothing else.
From Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory. by Hugo Münsterberg
To a phenomenalist the precept, Live up to thy nature, can have no meaning.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
His uncle knew he had a regrettable tendency to put things in the foreground and keep ideas very much in the background, and called him therefore a phenomenalist.
From The Lee Shore by Dame Rose Macaulay
The object of knowledge is no longer even, as with the phenomenalist, the thinker's thought, but only his thinking.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
