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語源 1

all +‎ -ism, coined by David Lewis in his 1989 paper "Noneism or Allism?"

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Allism (uncountable)

1. (metaphysics) A belief in the existence of all possible entities including past and future things or unactualised possibilities.
   • 2011, Angelica Nuzzo, Hegel and the Analytic Tradition, →ISBN:

     Allism is the position of those who think that all these entities actually exist, and moreover, everything we can speak meaningfully about in some sense exists.

   • 2012 June 1, Richard Woodward, “Towards Being”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research:

     Allism is noneism with a twist. Fore whereas the noneist holds that some objects have no kind of being at all, the allist holds that every object has being.

   • 2012 July 25, Graham Priest, “Lost in Translation: a Reply to Woodward”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research:

     But the rewritten noneist theory just is Allism [the view that everything over which the noneist quantifies exists] and our new quantifiers are defined in exactly the same way as Quine's!

語源 2

all +‎ -ism, coined by Peter van Inwagen in 2009.

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Allism (uncountable)

1. (creationism) The rejection of creationism in all its forms (including intelligent design) and the assertion that evolution alone is responsible for the diversity of all living creatures.
   • 2009, Louis Caruana, Darwin and Catholicism, →ISBN, page 12:

     Let us call it Allism – since it is essentially the thesis that natural selection does it all.

   • 2009, Melville Y. Stewart, Science and Religion in Dialogue, →ISBN, page 823:

     Allism is inconsistent with theism, and, therefore, anyone who professes ignorance as to whether Allism is true should profess ignorance as to whether God exists.

   • 2013, A. Rosenberg, Theism and Allism in The Philosophy of Peter Van Inwagen Ed. John Christopher Adorno Keller