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n. Excessive concern with outer circumstances or appearances.

n. Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion. The denial of internalism.

n. The act of judging by outward appearance or acts.

n. The belief that only things that can be observed by senses are real.

n. The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.

n. That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism.

n. Same as phenomenalism.

n. Attention or devotion to externals; especially, undue regard to externals, as of religion.

"But if externalism can be defined broadly enough to encompass Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Kripke, and Burge, still the comparison is strained when we take account of the different sources of ˜externalism™ in the phenomenologists."

internalism    externalist    internalist   

positivism    phenomenalism   

enginepowerset    snub    determinist    classism    ultraism