Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

micropsychism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mi-cropsy-chism
IPA

29

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The belief that the physical world is independent of the mind, and that some ultimates have experiential properties that are fundamentally necessary in the explanation of consciousness.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The resulting all-inclusive potential explanatory advantage of protophenomenalism over phenomenal micropsychism is offset by the liability that it proposes properties of which we currently have at best only a minimal conception."
"According to Strawson, micropsychism is a position similar to property dualism insofar as it takes mentality to be a fundamental property of physical systems."
"Either materialism, dualism, neutral monism, or micropsychism provides the best explanation of consciousness."

Etymology

From micro- + psychism.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: micro

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does micropsychism mean?: The belief that the physical world is independent of the mind, and that some ultimates have experiential properties that are fundamentally necessary in the explanation of consciousness.
Where does micropsychism come from?: From micro- + psychism.

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