Materialism
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Materialism was a ontological position which holds that there was no immaterial or spiritual realm, only that which was detectable in some form by the senses- for instance matter, light, and so forth. It assumed by the position of empiricism, and therefore science, and was contrasted with substance dualism and immaterialism. Arguments for materialism commonly employ ontological principles such as Occam's Razor- as a immaterial realm was wholly superfluous to materialists' understanding of the world, they have no reason to believe it exists.
Groups often identified with materialism include capitalists and atheists.