Panpsychist

Synonyms for "panpsychist" (7 found)

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  • Closest matches in this entry: adherent, idealist, idealistic, philosopher, platonic.
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Sample sentences

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Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I label Rod, a bicyclist at the Lulu Island café, a spiritual "eclectic," this morning on the 22nd of August of 2022. He is a slim older white man. He talks to me, whilst I munch on salted vinegar potato chips with iced black tea, beside a favourite Spanish-language sci-fi book, Crónicas de Majipur, by Robert Silverberg. Rod believes that there is "one God," but I say that God could be either singular or plural, as number is a limitation on God. I wonder if he is a "pantheist" or "panpsychist," who believes that there is, at some level, the divine or the mind, respectively, in everybody and everything, even a "pillow." The terminology excites him. He shows me a video describing the complex Aztec calendar on his smartphone. The presentation is full of Aztec, aka Nahuatl, words, which he mistakes for "Mayan." I tell him that in ancient Mexico, the Aztecs were more like the Japanese, whilst the Maya were more like the Chinese. I utter some words presented in Nahuatl. He does not look too surprised that I know how to pronounce. We both have visited Mexico before.

Source: tatoeba (11075479)

1984, Timothy Sprigge, Santayana and Panpsychism, in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 2: Fall 1984, page 1, Santayana was certainly not a panpsychist. However, I believe that there are panpsychist tendencies in his work.

Source: wiktionary

Meditational practices are quite consistent with, and even conducive to, a panpsychist outlook, but the aim of panpsychism is not to attain enlightenment.

Source: wiktionary

However, seeds have been planted for a panpsychist reading in the suggestion that in order to truly move beyond the consciousness-object distinction Merleau-Ponty's ontology would need to be more panpsychist than those of Leibniz and Scheler, not less.

Source: wiktionary

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Closest matches include adherent, idealist, idealistic, philosopher, platonic.

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