12 example sentences using materialistic.
Materialistic used in a sentence
Materialistic in a sentence as an adjective
There will be lots of people who will disagree, but the materialistic view of the mind has lots of cracks in it [2].
Maybe there is such a thing as the best cutlery, and maybe the cutlery he bought is it...but it seems like such an empty, odd, materialistic goal.
While I default to the materialistic hypothesis, I do so in the absence of evidence of anything else.
"A ton of people I met from around the World thought Americans were overweight, materialistic and unintelligent.
Most people get a decent set of flatware, a decent towel, and a decent backpack because we have non-materialistic things we need to invest our time and money in.
The culture was a lot more materialistic than - having a Hummer might actually impress a good portion of the dating pool to a degree that would be depressing now.
This leads into materialistic nihilism and a very unsettling style of ennui in which a person has to get further detached from reality to feel good.
Qualia is really difficult to account for - it makes sense for a materialistic system to have 'distinct placeholders' for different experiences, but why should they 'feel like' anything?
College students are encouraged to room together and give up materialistic wealth; college graduates and working professionals are encouraged to spend as much of their net worth as they can on procuring their own private abode.
Precisely because they propose a non-materialistic solution, they're difficult ones to explore - and so it's not really surprising that their own attempt to illustrate their perspective haven't been that convincing to materialists.
China became more materialistic, less ideological, less idealistic.
But it can only be "obvious" if you first accept that the materialistic hypothesis is false or that there is some reasonable definition of "computer" in a purely materialistic universe that does not include a brain and there is no possible alternative structure that can meet a reasonable definition of "doing semantics".To me, there's no reasonable way of claiming that the answer to this is "obvious".
Materialistic definitions
marked by materialism
See also: mercenary worldly-minded
conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality"
See also: bourgeois conservative