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So they tried to understand the world and human functioning with a more materialist scientific approach.

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Schooler and I duked it out over whether we should adopt a materialist, idealist, panpsychist, or some other position on our way to a complete answer.

As a radio materialist, you might come to the conclusion that somehow this arrangement of wires causes the voices to happen, but you wouldn’t even be aware that there are distant cities with radio towers.

As little as that sentence makes sense, it seems West is attempting to label Hitchens as a one dimensional materialist.

Every pull in the shoulders, every hitch in the back, every kink in the sleeves makes me a profound materialist.

His psychology is that of the crass materialist—always a rather funny article.

She is a materialist; she wants immediate results, and all that keeps her from being a gambler is the fear of losing.

Materialism, conscious and avowed Materialism, is in ill repute: and a confessed Materialist therefore a rare character.

Why else does he write his learned books in defense of the materialist philosophy?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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