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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to the physics of matter in the mass: opposed to microphysical, which relates to the ultimate structure of matter.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to macrophysics.

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Examples

  • Troy Camplin writes: "The indeterminism of quantum physics is erased at macrophysical levels."

    Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • The indeterminism of quantum physics is erased at macrophysical levels.

    Free Will and Behavioral Genetics, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Their work purports to offer reasons to search for a different type of indeterminism at both the micro and macrophysical levels.

    Chaos Bishop, Robert 2008

  • If indeed it seems at all odd that in our everyday discourse we should manifest a preference for the hypothesis that there are macrophysical objects over agnosticism about the matter, it should anyway seem more odd still if in our ordinary practices we should manifest a preference for the hypothesis that there are simples rather than gunk.

    Fictionalism Eklund, Matti 2007

  • Contrary to the original intent of mainstream neutral monism, macrophysical objects are not subject to neural monistic construction, i.e., they are not to be understood as constructions out of appearances according to the distal model.

    Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

  • This same general sort of problem, that the reduction is impossible without smuggling in the macrophysical concepts, appears elsewhere: not only in temperature, but in colour and schizophrenia, as well as to molecular chemistry, to which van Brakel now turns.

    The Manifest Image of Chemistry (LFPA 2005

  • This same general sort of problem, that the reduction is impossible without smuggling in the macrophysical concepts, appears elsewhere: not only in temperature, but in colour and schizophrenia, as well as to molecular chemistry, to which van Brakel now turns.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • As in his defense of an indivisibility thesis, Gassendi relies foremost on reason, not experience, to account for the origin and quantity of atoms and what he takes to be their essential and inessential properties, their internal impetus, motion, and causal role, and their contribution to the motions and qualities we attribute to macrophysical objects.

    Pierre Gassendi Fisher, Saul 2005

  • It is true that for practical purposes, that is, on the macrophysical level where the magnitude of Planck's constant h can be disregarded, and where the interval of chronon is practically equivalent to a mathematical instant, time remains very approximately continuous.

    TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

  • This view about the physical world combines physical reductionism ” of the macrophysical to the microphysical ” with neutral monistic reductionism about the microphysical.

    Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

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