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mathematicalism en · NOUN

Etymology

From mathematical + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it.
    • And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre). 2004, Michał Kokowski, Copernicusʹs Originality: Towards Integration of Contemporary Copernican Studies: