adverbialism

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noun

The view that perceptions do not have objects, so for example one "senses redly" rather than being aware of a red sense datum.

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Meanings

nounadverbialism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe view that perceptions do not have objects, so for example one "senses redly" rather than being aware of a red sense datum.

    I have considered a number of objections to adverbialism being true.

    2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI

Origin

From adverbial + -ism.

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