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All types of reductive physicalism are grounded in the idea that everything in the world can actually be reduced analytically to its fundamental physical, or material, basis.

This is one reason why " physicalism " is often used interchangeably with the word " materialism.

" Both terms ( in these instances ) hold that all organic and inorganic processes can be explained by reference to the laws of nature.

The general success of physics in explaining a large range of phenomena in terms of a few of these basic natural laws ; such as gravity, electricity, composition of mass, has assisted this belief.