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What does immaterialism mean?

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Noun
  1. (philosophy) The metaphysical denial of the existence of the material world
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In 1709 he issued An Essay towards a New Theory of Vision, followed in the next year by The Principles of Human Knowledge, the main exposition of his immaterialism.
What had touched the world's hearts was the ethereal immaterialism of their secluded world and something primal in the music they sang.
The affinity between immaterialism and traditional religion is somewhat easier to understand.
But inasmuch as the notion of metaphysics itself seems to exclude materialism, the vital alternative is that of immaterialism.
He constantly defended Idealistic, or speculative, philosophy against Pragmatism, neo-Realism, Materialism, and Berkeleian immaterialism.
Even for Leibniz, whose later monadological metaphysics was perhaps closer to Berkeley's immaterialist philosophy, an opposition to materialism didn't necessarily imply immaterialism.

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