19. Materialism and the matterless world

What should be the name of the philosophical worldview which is the opposite of atomic materialism?

It is not immaterialism because immaterialism is already a name of a philosophical definition. Dictionary definitions include:

• the doctrine that external bodies may be reduced to mind and ideas.
• Any doctrine opposed to materialism or phenomenalism especially a system that maintains the immateriality of the soul.
• Idealism especially Bishop Berkeleys theory of idealism
• The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual beings exist or are possible

These definitions seem to say that the world is not made of only matter but there are in addition to matter immaterial substances. So immaterialism therefore accepts materialism. It does not say matter does not exist.

But according to Wikipedia immaterialism is the theory propounded by Bishop Berkeley in the 18th century which holds that there are no material objects only minds and ideas in those minds.

I think this is mistaken too.

To say that there are no material objects but then to qualify it with “there are only minds and ideas” is once again a reaction to materialism. It assumes materialism.

Because the opposite of material is not mind. The opposite of matter is matterless.

Wikipedia has the kicking of the stone experiment to prove materialism under immaterialism so this suggest that people perceived immaterialism as the denial of materialism

Then the important thing to understand is that a concept of spiritual and mind exists because materialism is programmed into the child as the true ideology of nature.

Today Newtonism continues this tradition.

Once again Newton’s genius as a scholastic doctor shines. Newton based his ideology of force on the well-established dogma of atomic materialism and he did not even define it explicitly in his book. Very clever.