"Machian" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 40:",
          "text": "He had long ago abandoned his religion in favour of a Machian variety of materialism, but he felt nonetheless that he could not break the prohibition.",
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        "Pertaining to the work or philosophical ideas of Ernst Mach, characterised by a system of mechanics based on extreme empiricism."
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