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Definition of physicalistic in English:

physicalistic

Pronunciation /ˌfizikəˈlistik/

adjective

Philosophy

See physicalism

‘The ontology is phenomenalistic in its leanings, though open to a more physicalistic interpretation.’
  • ‘According to this argument, physicalism requires that all phenomena be susceptible in principle of a physicalistic explanation.’
  • ‘Predicate dualism is the theory that psychological or mentalistic predicates are essential for a full description of the world and are not reducible to physicalistic predicates.’
  • ‘Any construction of physicalistic discourse in terms of sense experience, logic, and set theory would have been seen as satisfactory if it made the physicalistic discourse come out right.’
  • ‘Alternative hypotheses may be offered for the clinical phenomena that led Freud to propose a death instinct, but they all involve different forms of a less physicalistic object relations theory.’