Meaning

The abstention from harmful activities, foods, and so on..

Definitions by Sense

1. The abstention from harmful activities, foods, and so on.
2. (philosophy) The stance that the nature of reality is unknowable because all information comes through the senses, which are unreliable.
3. (philosophy) The denial of higher-level meaning beyond physical existence; materialism.
4. (philosophy) The belief in the existence of entities and events within a domain that can only be defined in terms of what it is not.

Example Sentences

Neo-Platonism "tended to break the unity of life and thought which Christianity sought to establish," yet withal it prevented a too "facile nonism."

But it surely affects his theory of perception in that, with the espousal of neutral nonism, he had to abandon the sense-datum theory because he abandoned the relational character of sensation consisting of a subject and an object ie, a sense-datum.

Shakespeare, of course, called life "a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage..." and James Thurber continued: "It's a tale told in an idiom, full of unsoundness and fury, signifying nonism."

I share Simmel's dialectical “neither-nor” position (not monism, but nonism), as formulated in the regulating principle of methodological pluralism: neither idealism, nor materialism, nor elementarism, nor emergentism. Taken individually, each of the metatheoretical permutation and theoretical positions based on them are insufficient, for each is biased; as a whole, however, they make it possible to construct a general, global and multidimensional theory of society.

Sir Oliver's standing as a scientist makes his book interesting as a statement of the reasons a scientist can give in opposition to the conclusions of materialistic nonism.

That philosophy of the relation of psyche and soma which may be called materialistic nonism, the philosophy most congenial to behaviorists, was as ancient as Greek thought.

Not really: fundamentality is a red herring, and the proponents of nonism have avoided Hempel’s dilemma only at the cost of emptying their position of any distinctives that might give the anti-physicalist reason to reject it (which, naturally, is not to say that the anti-physicalist should accept it).

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