hyloist means Someone who believes that matter is God, or that there is no distinction between the two; a materialist. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
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HYLOIST — [Noun] A person who believes matter is God, or that no distinction exists between the divine and the physical; a materialist of a particular, monist persuasion. From the Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, "matter") and the suffix -ist ("one who believes in or practices"). Unlike a hylotheist (who professes a precise doctrine of divine-material identity) or a deist (who posits a distant creator separate from his work), the hyloist perceives the sacred not as a ghost in the machine but as the machine itself—grit, ore, and all. This is the devotion of one who feels the divine pulse in the grinding of tectonic plates, the silent growth of a redwood’s bark, and the cold, indifferent beauty of a distant galaxy. For the hyloist, to lose oneself in matter is to achieve the only possible communion, making a temple of the palpable weight of the real.
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- Someone who believes that matter is God, or that there is no distinction between the two; a materialist.“But, leaving for the present, as far as relates to the material world, the materialists, hyloists, and antihyloists, to settle this point among them […]: we may very safely assert that the esse of happiness is percipi. It exists as it is perceived.”