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immaterialism


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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Immaterialism  \Im`ma*te"ri*al*ism\,  n.  [Cf.  F. 
  immat['e]rialisme.] 
  1.  The  doctrine  that  immaterial  substances  or  spiritual  being 
  exist,  or  are  possible. 
 
  2.  (Philos.)  The  doctrine  that  external  bodies  may  be  reduced 
  to  mind  and  ideas  in  a  mind;  any  doctrine  opposed  to 
  materialism  or  phenomenalism,  esp.  a  system  that  maintains 
  the  immateriality  of  the  soul;  idealism;  esp.,  Bishop 
  Berkeley's  theory  of  idealism.