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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to hylozoism or the hylozoists: as, the hylozoistic conception of the universe.

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Examples

  • Some have accused the Gaia theory to fall under the ‘hylozoistic fallacy’ – erroneously in my view.

    Environmental ethics and the Gaia theory 2008

  • With this elimination of the element of purposiveness from the hylozoistic world, the content and process of nature are fitted to one another.

    The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916

  • Indeed, naturalism would seem here to have swung round toward its hylozoistic starting-point.

    The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916

  • From the scanty materials that have come down to us -- a few fragments of the writings of the early Ionians, and allusions in Aristotle's writings -- it is impossible to determine whether these first philosophers were Theists or Pantheists, although one may perhaps infer from their hylozoistic cosmology that they believed God to be at once the substance and the formative force in the universe.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

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