Descendentalism

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Noun
  1. 1
    A doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters. uncountable

    "Epistemological descendentalism withdraws from the celestial, and infernal, regions to matter of fact; it presumes that, in a world of universal evil, no other realm can or need be sought but that in which man comes to know the evil which is his life."

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transcendentalism

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"Epistemological descendentalism withdraws from the celestial, and infernal, regions to matter of fact; it presumes that, in a world of universal evil, no other realm can or need be sought but that in which man comes to know the evil which is his life."

Etymology

From descendental + -ism.

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