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The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.

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  1. n. The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.
  2. n. The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.
  3. 1. The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible. 2. (Philos.) The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.
  4. The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind andideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism orphenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of thesoul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.
  5. n. The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible. n. The doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas in a mind; any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism, esp. a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul; idealism; esp., Bishop Berkeley's theory of idealism.