Assertion: materialism's theory | /r/Synonym | mechanical materialism
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text: The word materialism has been used in modern times to refer to a family of metaphysical theories (i.e., theories of the nature of reality ) that can best be defined by saying that a theory tends to be called materialist if it is felt sufficiently to resemble a paradigmatic theory that will here be called mechanical materialism.