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 is always for the liberty of man as an individual, never for men as a herd, that he contends; as his favourite phrase, "subjective idealism," constantly insists.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by John Cowper Powys

The problem was an inheritance from subjective idealism.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard

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

From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin

To Schiller belongs the great merit of having opposed the subjective idealism of Kant and of having made the attempt to surpass it.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce