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What does externalism mean?

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Noun
  1. Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion. The denial of internalism.
  2. The act of judging by outward appearance or acts.
  3. The belief that only things that can be observed by senses are real.
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It is curious how the superstition of externalism has affected many, even noble minds.
They tore off the accumulated husks of externalism, but kept intact the real kernel of religion.
The difference between externalism and internalism is that of watching a movie versus having a role in one and making up our own lines.
A religion violently imposed from without as a state-religion naturally tends to hypocrisy and externalism.
All versions of externalism have in common that intensions don't determine extensions.
Eventually, he argued, this is what in fact happened so that the prophets faced a dead externalism in religious practice and a mechanical routine in religious thought.

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