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

This is the theory of Hegel, in whose system of philosophy the subjective idealism of Kant culminates in the doctrine of "Absolute Identity."

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

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

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 Richard Falckenberg

The subjective idealism of Fichte, however, generated an Aesthetic: that of irony as the base of art.

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