What is a form of philosphical monisn?
Materialism
are Materialism and physicalism related?
Yes
What class does Materialism belong to?
monist ontology
What does that mean?
form of philosophical monism
what term is preferred?
the term "physicalism"
to all?
No
What are ontological theories based on?
it is different from ontological theories based on dualism or pluralism
philosophies fall into how many categories?
two
which are?
Idealism, and materialism
What is matter to matarielists?
fundamental substance in nature
what about mind and spirit?
primary
What would be secondary to them?
matter is primary, and mind or spirit or ideas are secondar
What does the basic proposition of these two categories pretain to?
nature of reality
What would materialism be in contrast to
Idealism
anything else?
Materialism is closely related to physicalism