By aping the discourse of nineteenth-centurymaterialisticscience, it acted out its hidden tensions, exaggerating them into unresolvable paradoxes.From theCambridge English Corpus
But experimental physiology will teach us how much the notion of intuitive space is still reductivelymaterialistic.From theCambridge English Corpus
Rather, he identifies them archetypically, as archaic man stands furthest from the mode of consciousness represented by modern,materialisticculture.From theCambridge English Corpus
These attitudes reflected reformers' anxieties concerning their ownmaterialisticculture.From theCambridge English Corpus
It is beyond anymaterialisticconcept of volume.From theCambridge English Corpus
This is no more than the legislative manifestation of thematerialisticnationbuilding approach.From theCambridge English Corpus
Organicism can no longer be uncritically affirmed as the counter to dehumanizing mechanistic andmaterialistictrends.From theCambridge English Corpus
The analysis contrasts amaterialisticinterpretation of the influence of children on older people's wellbeing with the informants' more holistic evaluation of family relationships.From theCambridge English Corpus
In the last analysis, overpopulation receives most of the blame, but the currentmaterialisticattitude of the developed world is given almost equal credit.From theCambridge English Corpus
They provide what some like to characterize as a kind ofmaterialisticinterpretation of history.From theCambridge English Corpus
As though aware that the new doctrine was consideredmaterialistic, he qualified his approach.From theCambridge English Corpus
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, his inclinations were morematerialistic, if not in most of the conventional senses of academic "materialism".From theCambridge English Corpus
They outline a wholly new approach to the past which is at the same time historistic andmaterialistic.From theCambridge English Corpus
Of course, the problem of how to get at the operatic ' real' without being reductivelymaterialisticremains.From theCambridge English Corpus
The scenario of cosmic evolution is a decidedlymaterialisticproposition.From theCambridge English Corpus
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