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Etymology

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From coincidental +‎ -ism.

Noun

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coincidentalism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) A philosophy of coincidents
    • 2007 July 18, Thomas Sattig, “Identity in 4D”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, →DOI:
      The fact that three-dimensionalist coincidentalism faces problems concerning how an object’s temporal trajectory is determined did not play a central role in this paper because this fact is well known.