scientific materialism
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.04 in modern English
32
Scrabble Score
21
Letters
8
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The philosophical belief that nothing exists or occurs that does not have a scientific explanation, even if that scientific explanation is not yet known.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "That the analysis of scientific progress provides us with clues which are interesting from the humanistic point of view is the central idea of many antimetaphysical and antireligious doctrines such as positivism, neopositivism, scientific materialism, and the different versions of scientific naturalism widespread in the contemporary intellectual arena."