descendentalism
English
editEtymology
editdescendental + -ism
Noun
editdescendentalism (uncountable)
- (philosophy) A doctrine that emphasizes empiricism and positivism; a philosophical focus on material and worldly matters.
- 1974, Robert Currie, Genius: an ideology in literature:
- Epistemological descendentalism withdraws from the celestial, and infernal, regions to matter of fact; it presumes that, in a world of universal evil, no other realm can or need be sought but that in which man comes to know the evil which is his life.