Meaning

In a physicalistic manner or context..

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[…] that the facts of parapsychology will be widely and fully accepted by the rank and file of physicalistically oriented scientists.

Hence, any facts that are commonly admitted as physicalistically acceptable but that don’t fit C&J’s model are counterexamples to their view.

If, however, linguistic ability is sui generis (in the sense that it cannot be physicalistically reduced) and if the human person is essentially distinguished by his linguistic ability, then, in effect, empiricism is committed to the thesis that the "creature" that achieves language is not one and the same as the creature that first begins to acquire language.

The proposition, as readily taken naturalistically as physicalistically, is to the effect that the meanings of at least certain terms in our thinking and feeling are in some unexpected way related to things outside our heads, certainly not just caused by them.

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Use physicalistically when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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