coincidentalism

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noun

A philosophy of coincidents

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Meanings

nouncoincidentalism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesA philosophy of coincidents

    The fact that three-dimensionalist coincidentalism faces problems concerning how an object’s temporal trajectory is determined did not play a central role in this paper because this fact is well known.

    2007 July 18, Thomas Sattig, “Identity in 4D”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI

Origin

From coincidental + -ism.

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