Definitions
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- noun The view, believed to have been held by Calvin and other church reformers contrary to the Catholic doctrine of
transubstantiation , that the bread and wine (inChristian Holy Communion ) do not literally transform into flesh and blood but are the medium or mechanism through which the spiritual or immaterial essence of the flesh and blood ofJesus Christ are received. .
Etymologies
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Examples
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One common criticism of Deleuze and DeLanda is that their ontolog (ies) suffer from what might be called "virtualism".
Larval Subjects . 2009
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In an age of increasing virtualism, ( "friends" on Facebook and MySpace, virtual goods in casual games like Farmville and Mafia Wars, avatars that represent a better or different version of yourself) being among real people, experiencing shared emotions in real time is becoming less and less common.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Marc Ruxin 2010
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Anthropological theories of virtualism, materiality/immateriality and digitisation.
Culture Matters Third Tone Devil 2009
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The problem with this sort of virtualism is that it fails to observe a particular property of groups known as "closure" as described by mathematical group theory.
Larval Subjects . 2009
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Roughly, virtualism would consist in treating the virtual as the domain of the
Larval Subjects . 2009
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