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Webster 1913 Edition
Idealism
I-de′al-ism
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
idéalisme
.] 1.
The quality or state of being ideal.
2.
Conception of the ideal; imagery.
3.
(Philos.)
The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.
Webster 1828 Edition
Idealism
IDE'ALISM
,Noun.