If you think about it, you might agree that a materialist is a lot less materialistic than he thinks he is. From Wordnik.com. [Against Darwinism] Reference
In other words, is he a born again materialist or just a quasi?. From Wordnik.com. [A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)] Reference
I don't think the distinction between materialist and non-materialist is clear. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Thinking] Reference
Idea in materialist terms is its position with regard to what Deleuze calls the "actual" and the. From Wordnik.com. [Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_] Reference
The materialist is the one saying conscious thought really is nothing more than material in nature. From Wordnik.com. [Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID] Reference
But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers of Architectural Positivism] Reference
The approach accords with certain materialist strains in recent critical theory and works counter to any notions of an image or text that transcends its physical embodiments. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
I can be a materialist (today we would call a materialist an evolutionist). From Wordnik.com. [Thou shalt deny me thrice before the court crows « BuzzMachine] Reference
History has taken pains to record that he died an atheist, that is, a materialist. From Wordnik.com. [Catherine De Medici] Reference
And, similarly, if the cosmos of the materialist is the real cosmos, it is not much of a cosmos. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
I mean that modern doctrine, taught, I believe, by most followers of Karl Marx, which is called the materialist theory of history. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
"One calls materialist," says Renouvier, with great exactness, "every philosophy which defines thought as the product of a compound whose elements do not imply thought.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference
That label doesn't fit me any more than "materialist" does. From Wordnik.com. [Changing Your Name] Reference
Of course his theory is fully materialist, meaning the total absence of Intelligent agencies causing biological production. From Wordnik.com. ['Creation:' A drama about the life of Charles Darwin - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
One possibility is that he was a kind of materialist, for we can discern hints of atomism in his Commentary on the Sentences. From Wordnik.com. [William Crathorn] Reference
It was one of Marx’s first attempts to deal with categories that would later be called the materialist conception of history. From Wordnik.com. [The common denominator] Reference
What I expect is for what constitutes 'materialist' to change a la Strawson, with the hope that no one notices that a redefinition is underway. From Wordnik.com. [Against Darwinism] Reference
And on this approach, study of the class relations of a given society is a "materialist" study -- even though class relations are abstract and intangible. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-07-01] Reference
In the same way the scientific materialists have had just reason to complain of people mixing up "materialist" as a term of cosmology with. From Wordnik.com. [Orthodoxy] Reference
Thought Provoker wrote "For the record, I am not a" materialist ". From Wordnik.com. [A Review of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed] Reference
"materialist," owing to the very fact that it naturally grasps "forms" only. From Wordnik.com. [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference
… From what I can tell, Venter seems to be what the Discovery Institute call a "materialist" ". From Wordnik.com. [De Facto Intelligent Design in Biology] Reference
"materialist" was everywhere applied to him, and he did not resent it, yet he was one of the most spiritual of men. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference
Here we have a thorough-going system of materialist monism. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
How do you know if you're a spiritual seeker or a materialist?. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Piver: Are You a Buddhist? You Tell Me] Reference
The characteristic attitude of the socialist materialist toward. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
The socialist materialist realizes that the obsolescent ideals of. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
And when that happens, they go in for what the sociologists call "post-materialist values.". From Wordnik.com. [Report From Philly: Why The Gop Is Playing Nice] Reference
But with the growth of Modern Socialism the tendency is for the metaphysical materialist to. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism: Positive and Negative] Reference
I don't so much view myself as anti-materialist as anti a certain kind of brain reductionism. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: Interview with Alva Noe, Ph.D.] Reference
Properly speaking, Dennett, who heads the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, is a materialist. From Wordnik.com. [Is The Mind An Illusion?] Reference
The materialist who believes in Forces is brother to the Calvinist who preaches Sovereignty and the Divine Decrees. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
"It sounds arrogant, but we want people to change for the better, to put aside their materialist ways," says Murray. From Wordnik.com. [HAVING FUN DOING GOOD] Reference
A truly adult character in a gleefully adult game, Niko also boasts a surprisingly subversive line in anti-materialist disillusion. From Wordnik.com. [The 10 best video-game characters] Reference
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