descendentalism
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
descendental + -ism
Noun[edit]
descendentalism (uncountable)
- (philosophy) A doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.
- 1974, Robert Currie, Genius: an ideology in literature:
- Epistemological descendentalism withdraws from the celestial, and infernal, regions to matter of fact; it presumes that, in a world of universal evil, no other realm can or need be sought but that in which man comes to know the evil which is his life.