allism

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Pronunciation
/ˈælɪzm̩/
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/ˈælɪzm̩/ · /ˈɑlɪzm̩/

Definition of allism

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable)A belief in the existence of all possible entities including past and future things or unactualised possibilities.
    “Allism is the position of those who think that all these entities actually exist, and moreover, everything we can speak meaningfully about in some sense exists.”
    “Allism is noneism with a twist. Fore whereas the noneist holds that some objects have no kind of being at all, the allist holds that every object has being.”
    “But the rewritten noneist theory just is Allism [the view that everything over which the noneist quantifies exists] and our new quantifiers are defined in exactly the same way as Quine's!”
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noun

  1. (uncountable)A belief in the existence of all possible entities including past and future things or unactualised possibilities.
    “Allism is the position of those who think that all these entities actually exist, and moreover, everything we can speak meaningfully about in some sense exists.”
    “Allism is noneism with a twist. Fore whereas the noneist holds that some objects have no kind of being at all, the allist holds that every object has being.”
    “But the rewritten noneist theory just is Allism [the view that everything over which the noneist quantifies exists] and our new quantifiers are defined in exactly the same way as Quine's!”
  2. (uncountable)The rejection of creationism in all its forms (including intelligent design) and the assertion that evolution alone is responsible for the diversity of all living creatures.
    “Let us call it Allism – since it is essentially the thesis that natural selection does it all.”
    “Allism is inconsistent with theism, and, therefore, anyone who professes ignorance as to whether Allism is true should profess ignorance as to whether God exists.”
    “2013, A. Rosenberg, Theism and Allism in The Philosophy of Peter Van Inwagen Ed. John Christopher Adorno Keller”
  3. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable)Alternative form of Allism.
  4. (humorous, sometimes, uncountable)A neurological condition characterised by the lack of autistic symptoms.

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Etymology

From all + -ism, coined by David Lewis in his 1989 paper "Noneism or Allism?".

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