Acosmism

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God. uncountable
  2. 2
    The determination of the world as mere phenomena to which true reality does not pertain. uncountable

    ""[Spinoza's] system would have to be designated not an 'atheism' but instead the reverse, an 'acosmism', since according to this philosophy there is actually no world at all in the sense of something positively being.""

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allotheismanthropomorphismatomismdeismditheismdualism

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""[Spinoza's] system would have to be designated not an 'atheism' but instead the reverse, an 'acosmism', since according to this philosophy there is actually no world at all in the sense of something positively being.""

Etymology

From a- + Ancient Greek κόσμος (kósmos, “universe”) + -ism.

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