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Allism
Allism
See also: allism
English
Noun
Allism (uncountable)
- (metaphysics) A belief in the existence of all possible entities including past and future things or unactualised possibilities.
- 2011, Angelica Nuzzo, Hegel and the Analytic Tradition, ISBN 1441137602:
- Allism is the position of those who think that all these entities actually exist, and moreover, everything we can speak meaningfully about in some sense exists.
- 2012 June 1, Richard Woodward, “Towards Being”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research:
- Allism is noneism with a twist. Fore whereas the noneist holds that some objects have no kind of being at all, the allist holds that every object has being.
- 2012 July 25, Graham Priest, “Lost in Translation: a Reply to Woodward”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research:
- But the rewritten noneist theory just is Allism [the view that everything over which the noneist quantifies exists] and our new quantifiers are defined in exactly the same way as Quine's!
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Etymology 2
all + -ism coined by Peter van Inwagan in 2009
Noun
Allism (uncountable)
- (theology) The denial of creationism in all its forms (including intelligent design) and the assertion that evolution alone is responsible for the diversity of all living creatures.
- 2009, Louis Caruana, Darwin and Catholicism, ISBN 0567256723, page 12:
- Let us call it Allism – since it is essentially the thesis that natural selection does it all.
- 2009, Melville Y. Stewart, Science and Religion in Dialogue, ISBN 1444317369, page 823:
- Allism is inconsistent with theism, and, therefore, anyone who professes ignorance as to whether Allism is true should profess ignorance as to whether God exists.
- 2013, A. Rosenberg, Theism and Allism in The Philosophy of Peter Van Inwagen Ed. John Christopher Adorno Keller
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