panexperientialism
|pan-ex-pe-ri-en-ti-al-ism|
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/ˌpænɛkspɪriˈɛnʃəlɪzəm/
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/ˌpænɛkspɪəriˈɛnʃəlɪzəm/
experience everywhere
Etymology
'panexperientialism' originates from Greek and Latin roots: specifically Greek 'pan' (meaning 'all') combined with Latin 'experientia' (meaning 'experience') and the English suffix '-ism'.
'panexperientialism' was formed in modern philosophical English by combining the prefix 'pan-' with 'experientialism' (itself from 'experiential' + '-ism'), appearing in 20th-century discussions in process philosophy and metaphysics and eventually becoming the established technical term 'panexperientialism'.
Initially coined to express the general idea that 'experience is widespread or universal,' the term has come to be used more precisely for views that ascribe experiential or proto-experiential properties to events, processes, or fundamental entities (often contrasted with substance-based panpsychism).
Meanings by Part of Speech
Noun 1
a philosophical doctrine holding that experiential or proto-experiential properties are fundamental and ubiquitous in reality — i.e., that experience (or aspects of experience) is present, in some form, in all entities or processes.
Panexperientialism argues that even the simplest entities or events possess some form of experience or proto-experience.
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