Cosmothetic
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Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of thephysical or external world. Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), thosewho assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of externalobjects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas ofwhich only the mind has direct cognizance.The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediatelyconscious of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.
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