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

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

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

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

From An Introduction to Philosophy by George Stuart Fullerton

It is suggested chiefly by an ambiguity in the word "pain," which has misled many people, including Berkeley, whom it supplied with one of his arguments for subjective idealism.

From The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell