Emergentism

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The belief in emergence, particularly as it involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind, and as it contrasts (or not) with reductionism. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From emergent + -ism.

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philosophy of mind

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