I felt like I shouldn't specify "this is a word which has a specific definition" for the third time in the post, hoping A: the reader would get it by then, and B: the way I explained materialism in contrast to idealism would provide enough context to anchor the specific definition of the word being used. In my defense, if you search wikipedia for "Materialism" it goes straight to the philosophical definition with no disambiguan page.
I felt like I shouldn't specify "this is a word which has a specific definition" for the third time in the post, hoping A: the reader would get it by then, and B: the way I explained materialism in contrast to idealism would provide enough context to anchor the specific definition of the word being used. In my defense, if you search wikipedia for "Materialism" it goes straight to the philosophical definition with no disambiguan page.