Meanings
plural nonists
- An advocate of nonism
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But the request to relate positively what these significant respects are is just what the nonist is eager to decline, since among the lessons he has taken from his materialist forebears is that characterizing the physical is not an activity to be conducted from the armchair, but is an a posteriori affair best left to the physicists.
2007 August 9, Neal Judisch, “Why ‘non-mental’ won’t work: on Hempel’s dilemma and the characterization of the ‘physical’”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 3, →DOI
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