Meanings
- not comparableIn a physicalistic manner or context.
[…] that the facts of parapsychology will be widely and fully accepted by the rank and file of physicalistically oriented scientists.
1937, The Journal of Parapsychology, volumes 1-17, Duke University Press, page 2573 more examples
Hence, any facts that are commonly admitted as physicalistically acceptable but that don’t fit C&J’s model are counterexamples to their view.
2008 January 23, Thomas W. Polger, “H₂O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 109–130If, however, linguistic ability is sui generis (in the sense that it cannot be physicalistically reduced) and if the human person is essentially distinguished by his linguistic ability, then, in effect, empiricism is committed to the thesis that the "creature" that achieves language is not one and the same as the creature that first begins to acquire language.
2012, Joseph Margolis, Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism, page 99The proposition, as readily taken naturalistically as physicalistically, is to the effect that the meanings of at least certain terms in our thinking and feeling are in some unexpected way related to things outside our heads, certainly not just caused by them.
2014, Ted Honderich, Actual Consciousness
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