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subjective idealism

noun

, Philosophy.
  1. a doctrine that the world has no existence independent of sensations or ideas.


subjective idealism

noun

  1. philosophy the theory that all experience is of ideas in the mind
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • subjective idealist noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of subjective idealism1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

Subjective idealism is therefore difficult to refute logically; but in spite of that fact it will never have many followers.

If this were all the fulfilling experience meant, it is difficult to see how we should escape subjective idealism.

It was the formula for romanticism and for subjective idealism.

Metaphysic thus escapes the imputation of leading us into subjective idealism.

He was the author of works on philosophy which are marked by extreme subjective idealism.

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