substantialism

Most of the book is an assault on evolution, but Hall also defends at great length an original theory of physics called "substantialism."

The "hole argument" offered by John Earman is a powerful argument against manifold substantialism.

These considerations show that, since substantialism allows the construction of holes, that the universe must, on that view, be indeterministic.

In the last two letters, he founds a metaphysical materialism grounded in a critique of monist substantialism.

The metascientific approach is opposed to metaphysics in philosophy and substantialism in Science, according to which science does not need to study metascience.

Central to the philosophy of the world Commonwealth Government which rises after the Catastrophe is what Wagar calls Substantialism.

Wagar once stated that what he called Substantialism in the book was his recasting of the ideas of Jean Jaurès.

Which, Earman argues, is a case against substantialism, as the case between determinism or indeterminism should be a question of physics, not of our commitment to substantialism.

Both the Mādhyamikas and the Yogācārins saw themselves as preserving the Buddhist Middle Way between the extremes of nihilism (everything as unreal) and substantialism (substantial entities existing).

While substantivalism (also called substantialism) tends to view individuals as self-subsistent entities capable of social interaction, relationalism underscores the social human practices and the individual's transactional contexts and reciprocal relations.

Some philosophers of physics take the argument to raise a problem for manifold substantialism, a doctrine that the manifold of events in spacetime are a "substance" which exists independently of the matter within it.