noun. Excessive concern with outer circumstances or appearances.

noun. Same as phenomenalism.

noun. Attention or devotion to externals; especially, undue regard to externals, as of religion.

noun. The quality of being manifest to the senses; external acts or appearances; regard for externals.

noun. That philosophy or doctrine which recognizes or deals only with externals, or objects of sense perception; positivism; phenomenalism.

noun. Excessive regard to outward acts or appearances, especially in religion. The denial of internalism.

noun. The act of judging by outward appearance or acts.

noun. The belief that only things that can be observed by senses are real.

"But if externalism can be defined broadly enough to encompass Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Kripke, and Burge, still the comparison is strained when we take account of the different sources of ˜externalism™ in the phenomenologists."

externalist  internalism  internalist  

brainpower  captiousness  classism  determinist  duffer  

phenomenalism  positivism