Mathematicalism

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Noun
  1. 1
    The view that the observable world is material with certain elements of mathematics needed to describe and explain it. uncountable

    "And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre)."

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"And my own distinctions of Plato's mathematical abstractionism and his mathematico-physical hypotheticism I treat as a more detailed description of Platonic mathematicalism (named so by L. Brunschvicg and A. Koyre)."

Etymology

From mathematical + -ism.

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