physicalistically

English

Etymology

From physicalistic +‎ -ally.

Adverb

physicalistically (not comparable)

1. In a physicalistic manner or context.
   • 1937, The Journal of Parapsychology, volumes 1-17, Duke University Press, page 257:

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

   • 2008 January 23, Thomas W. Polger, “H₂O, ‘Water’, and Transparent Reduction”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 1, →DOI, pages 109–130:

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

   • 2012, Joseph Margolis, Persons and Minds: The Prospects of Nonreductive Materialism‎^[1], page 99:

     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.

   • 2014, Ted Honderich, Actual Consciousness‎^[2]:

     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.