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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine or principles of the phenomenists.
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We therefore take up very distinctly an opposite standpoint to the principle of _relativity_: in other terms, we reject the phenomenism of Berkeley.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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On reflection, it seems to me that, after having rejected phenomenism, we are in no way constrained to accept substance.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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We know that it is in this manner that Berkeley conquered corporeal substantialism and taught phenomenism; while Hume, more radical than he, went so far as to question the substantialism of mind.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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In general, phenomenism is opposed to substantialism, and it is supposed that those who do not accept the former doctrine must accept the latter, while, on the contrary, those who reject substantialism must be phenomenists.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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Sometimes relativism is combined with representationalism (McGinn 1983, Tye 1994), but it arguably fits more naturally with phenomenism (McLaughlin 2003, Cohen
Inverted Qualia Byrne, Alex 2006
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Thus we are neither adherents of phenomenism, nor of substantialism.] [Footnote 27: I borrow from RABIER this argument, which has thoroughly convinced me (see _Psychologie_, p. 281).] [Footnote 28: PILON is the psychologist who has the most forcibly demonstrated that resemblance acts before being perceived.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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