The scenario of cosmic evolution is a decidedly materialistic proposition.
Of course, the problem of how to get at the operatic ' real' without being reductively materialistic remains.
They outline a wholly new approach to the past which is at the same time historistic and materialistic.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, his inclinations were more materialistic, if not in most of the conventional senses of academic "materialism".
As though aware that the new doctrine was considered materialistic, he qualified his approach.
They provide what some like to characterize as a kind of materialistic interpretation of history.
In the last analysis, overpopulation receives most of the blame, but the current materialistic attitude of the developed world is given almost equal credit.
The analysis contrasts a materialistic interpretation of the influence of children on older people's wellbeing with the informants' more holistic evaluation of family relationships.
