Definitions
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- noun An excessive emphasis on action, activity, or change in lieu of
continuity , stability, and permanence.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Activism or actionism is about reaching more than the choir.
Reaching the under-served DNLee 2009
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Activism or actionism is about reaching more than the choir.
Archive 2009-06-01 DNLee 2009
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But the greatest objection to the doctrine of inter-actionism is doubtless that drawn from the law of the Conservation of Energy, which says that, inasmuch as mind is a non-physical energy, inasmuch as matter cannot be affected by a non-physical cause, brain-changes cannot result from will, or the activities of the mind.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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This important fact once established, it would at once alter the whole case and render inter-actionism not only a
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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It at once removes this classical objection to the doctrine of inter-actionism; and at the same time virtually proves that theory correct -- thus solving this problem once and for all!
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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This has been one of the classical objections to the doctrine of inter-actionism; and it must not be thought that I have failed to take into account this alternate theory.
The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Hereward Carrington 1919
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There are many authors who maintain that the soul can act directly on the body and modify it, and this is what is called inter-actionism.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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Our solution vaguely resembles that which has sometimes been presented under the ancient name of _physical influx_, or under the more modern name of _inter-actionism_.
The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps Alfred Binet 1884
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It's the art lover who wants us to be awestruck before the "modern genius" of a century of artists, from surrealism to Viennese actionism, all competing to see who could best spit in the face of civilization.
ShaunKenney.com 2010
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It's the art lover who wants us to be awestruck before the "modern genius" of a century of artists, from surrealism to Viennese actionism, all competing to see who could best spit in the face of civilization.
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