mathematicalism

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noun

The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.

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Meanings

nounmathematicalism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.

    And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre).

    2004, Michał Kokowski, Copernicusʹs Originality: Towards Integration of Contemporary Copernican Studies

Origin

From mathematical + -ism.

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