subjective idealism

American  

noun

Philosophy.

1. a doctrine that the world has no existence independent of sensations or ideas.

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subjective idealism British  

noun

1. philosophy the theory that all experience is of ideas in the mind

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Other Word Forms

• subjective idealist
  noun

Etymology

Origin of subjective idealism

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

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subjective idealism

For example, here in Japan, subjective idealism, illusion, wishful thinking or emotion occasionally starts to drive diplomacy walk alone to nowhere, with no solid or cold-blooded calculation.

From Newsweek ● Dec. 21, 2009

It was, however, impossible for Descartes to be content with a subjective idealism that confined all knowledge to the tautological expression of self-consciousness “I am I,” “What I perceive I perceive.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

He was the author of works on philosophy which are marked by extreme subjective idealism.

From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee

With the various forms of subjective idealism it is usual to contrast the doctrine of Objective Idealism.

From An Introduction to Philosophy by Fullerton, George Stuart

In regard to subjective idealism Schopenhauer confesses himself a thoroughgoing Kantian.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard