vitalism
- noun
- /ˈvaɪtəlɪzəm/
- Archaic
- Many early scientists supported vitalism, believing that living organisms were governed by a force beyond physical processes.
- Vitalism in Twentieth-Century
They proposed vitalism, that there were vital laws that weren't based on chemistry and physics that were necessary to explain that complexity.
- They proposed vitalism, that there were vital laws that weren't based on chemistry and physics that were necessary to explain that complexity.
- And so he, he suggests also that that vitalism of different sorts is, is, is not going to be the way through here as well.
Examples
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They proposed vitalism, that there were vital laws that weren't based on chemistry and physics that were necessary to explain that complexity.
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And Deleuze is famous for his vitalism, the primary historical precursor for which is Bergson.
Academic text (2017) -
The applied philosophy known as vitalism arose in the late eighteenth century.
Academic text (2001) -
Scott Lash remarks that: 'In vitalism, life is not at all counterposed to death.'
Blog text (19) -
Of course, the more successful bioscience was in explaining life and treating disease, the more it discredited vitalism and drove it to the margins.
Academic text (2001) -
Ann Conway also found vitalism congenial at a time when mechanism prevailed in England.
Fiction book (1991) -
Yet, ironically, although vitalism resonates with aspects of postmodernity, it may nonetheless turn out to be a model that science can increasingly support.
Academic text (2001) -
The essays are organized into three divisions: "Historical Background," "Vitalism in Twentieth-Century Philosophy and Science," and "Vitalism in Twentieth-Century Literature and Aesthetics."
Academic text (1993) -
The hegemony of vitalism is such that it seems to absorb and delimit any putative 'anti-vitalism.'
Blog text (19) -
All this leads Thompson to call for a new approach—not some new vitalism or panpsychism, but rather a new, nondual framework.
Academic text (2016)
How Mechanistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vitalism starts with vital, which comes from the Latin vita 'life', and ends with -ism, which shows a belief or system. So vitalism is the idea that a special 'life force' makes living things different from non-living things.