phenomenalist
/fɪˈnɑmənəlɪst/
noun
- A person who supports or believes in phenomenalism, the philosophical view that only observable things are real.
- Famous phenomenalists include philosophers like George Berkeley and John Stuart Mill.
- As a phenomenalist, she argued that unobserved objects don't truly exist.
- The debate between the realist and the phenomenalist lasted for hours.
adjective
- Relating to or characteristic of phenomenalism or its followers.
- The book presents a phenomenalist interpretation of quantum mechanics.
- His phenomenalist approach to science focuses only on measurable data.
- She adopted a phenomenalist stance, denying the reality of unobserved particles.