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substantialism [səbˈstænʃəˌlɪzəm]
n Philosophy
1. (Philosophy) the doctrine that a substantial reality underlies phenomena
2. (Philosophy) the doctrine that matter is a real substance
substantialist  n
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Buddhism needed to overcome its unreal disengagement from worldly particularity, he argued, and Christianity needed to be delivered from the bondage of a substantialist self.
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Its fundamental tenet is that something is more elemental than life, namely Being understood informationally, and hence, something more fundamental than pleasure and pain, namely "entropy" {this is not the physicists' concept of entropy; entropy here means destruction of informational objects, that is, nothingness, in the vocabulary of the old substantialist metaphysics of Being).
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substantialists (Granger, 1996), but widespread agreement exists that he equated life with soul and soul with life (Park & Kessler, 1988).
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