Hyloist

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who believes that matter is God, or that there is no distinction between the two; a materialist. archaic, historical

    "But, leaving for the present, as far as relates to the material world, the materialists, hyloists, and antihyloists, to settle this point among them […]: we may very safely assert that the esse of happiness is percipi. It exists as it is perceived."

Synonyms

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hylotheist

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"But, leaving for the present, as far as relates to the material world, the materialists, hyloists, and antihyloists, to settle this point among them […]: we may very safely assert that the esse of happiness is percipi. It exists as it is perceived."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “matter”) + -ist.

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