Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Supposing the existence of an external world; affirming the real existence of the external world.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Metaph.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world.
- adjective (Metaph.) those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance.
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- adjective
Assuming orpositing theactual existence orreality of thephysical orexternal world .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Dynamism the doctrine that the original cosmothetic force was not distinct from, but identical with, the matter out of which the universe was made.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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This primitive cosmothetic Monism gradually gave way to a dualistic conception of the origin of the world.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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It was developed by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, who brought to their description of the world-forming process a higher notion of cosmothetic mind than the pre-Socratic philosophers possessed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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I will not ask whether Reid was a 'natural realist' or a 'cosmothetic idealist,' or what Descartes or Arnauld thought about the question.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Leslie Stephen 1868
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a subject or substratum of attributes is unknown and unknowable, is totally different from that of cosmothetic idealism, with which Mr Mill confounds it; [AI] and that a philosopher may without inconsistency accept the former and reject the latter.
The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845
qms commented on the word cosmothetic
He loathes any weak cosmothetic;
The solopsist calls them pathetic.
If the real’s but surmised
Won’t he be surprised,
Entrapped in the pure theoretic.
March 25, 2019