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phe·nom·enal·ism [fɪˈnɒmɪnəlɪzəm, Am fəˈnɑ:mə] N no pl PHILOS

phenomenalism

Phänomenalismus m

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He uses this notion to re-interpret phenomenalism, claiming that it need not take the form of a reductionism (often considered untenable). en.wikipedia.org

However, phenomenalism is based on mental operations. en.wikipedia.org

This view has similarities with phenomenalism. en.wikipedia.org

Phenomenalism is the view that physical objects, properties, events (whatever is physical) are reducible to mental objects, properties, events. en.wikipedia.org

Idealism denies the knowability or existence of the non-mental, while phenomenalism serves to restrict the mental to the empirical. en.wikipedia.org

He argues for a sophisticated sense-datum account, although he rejects phenomenalism. en.wikipedia.org

In particular, phenomenalism reduces talk about physical objects in the external world to talk about bundles of sense-data. en.wikipedia.org

Materialism typically contrasts with dualism, phenomenalism, idealism, vitalism, and dual-aspect monism. en.wikipedia.org

The dominant epistemology of the logical positivists at that time was phenomenalism, in the guise of the theory of sense-data. en.wikipedia.org

Phenomenalism is the theory that representations (or sense data) of external objects are all that exist. en.wikipedia.org

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