[f. prec. + -ISM.] (See quot.) Hence Substitutionalist.
1908. C. A. Strong, in Ess. in honor of W. James, 170–1. The present experience does not intuite the past experience…. It is a more or less perfect reproduction of it…. It earns its title to be a memory by serving as a satisfactory substitute for the object in the regulation of conduct. We may call this the substitutional theory of knowledge, or, more briefly, substitutionalism. Ibid., 180. From this maze of misconceptions … the substitutionalist is saved by his insight that the proper thing to be called experience is not an experience projected into the place of another experience but an experience simply.
