| 1641 | Some alarming thinkers think that only things which you can touch exist [Plato] |
| 11256 | Materialists cannot explain change [Aristotle, by Politis] |
| 14048 | Astronomical movements are blessed, but they don't need the help of the gods [Epicurus] |
| 7559 | Every part of the universe is body, and non-body is not part of it [Hobbes] |
| 5287 | Philosophical problems are resolved into empirical facts [Marx/Engels] |
| 18438 | Every worldly event, without exception, is a redistribution of microphysical states [Quine] |
| 10243 | My ontology is quarks etc., classes of such things, classes of such classes etc. [Quine] |
| 3454 | Reality is entirely particles in force fields [Searle] |
| 3437 | 'Physical facts determine all the facts' is the physicalists' slogan [Kim] |
| 15318 | Gravitational and electrical fields are, for a materialist, distressingly empty of material [Harré/Madden] |
| 8580 | Materialism is (roughly) that two worlds cannot differ without differing physically [Lewis] |
| 16054 | Physicalism needs more than global supervenience on the physical [Horgan,T] |
| 16055 | Materialism requires that physics be causally complete [Horgan,T] |
| 7855 | Some suggest that materialism is empty, because 'physical' cannot be properly characterized [Mellor/Crane, by Papineau] |
| 6504 | For physicalists, the only relations are spatial, temporal and causal [Robinson,H] |
| 16048 | Physicalism says in any two physically indiscernible worlds the positive facts are the same [Chalmers, by Bennett,K] |
| 16060 | Nonreductive materialism says upper 'levels' depend on lower, but don't 'reduce' [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 16064 | The hallmark of physicalism is that each causal power has a base causal power under it [Lynch/Glasgow] |
| 14909 | Physicalism is 'part-whole' (all parts are physical), or 'supervenience/levels' (dependence on physical) [Ladyman/Ross] |
| 16049 | Definitions of physicalism are compatible with a necessary God [Bennett,K] |