Meaning of Allism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A neurological condition characterised by the lack of autistic symptoms.
   humorous, uncountable, usually
2. A belief in the existence of all possible entities including past and future things or unactualised possibilities.
   uncountable
3. 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.
   uncountable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

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

“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”

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