Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine or theory that a multiplicity of souls exists in each person.
- noun The belief that natural phenomena are caused by a multiplicity of spiritual beings.
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Examples
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I need not wait to trace the gradual integration of this anthropopsychic hypothesis from its earliest and most diffused form of what we may term polypsychism
Thoughts on Religion George John Romanes 1871
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In general our information regarding savage psychical theories is meager; it is not unlikely that with fuller acquaintance the details given above would have to be modified, though the general fact of polypsychism would doubtless remain.
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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Fiji, examination of dead in, 78, 81; extinction of soul held in, 48; future punishment in, 72; polypsychism in, 39; village deities in, 482
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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America, examination of dead in, 76; gods of, 662-665; guardian spirits in, 504; polypsychism in, 39; power of priests in, 532; social organizations in, 499; tribal badges in, 446; trickster heroes in, 633
Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV Crawford Howell Toy 1877
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These inherited problems include the following: conscious / volitional versus unconscious / involuntary mentalisms; contentual objectivism versus contentual subjectivism; environmentalism versus nativism; monopsychism versus polypsychism; mechanism versus vitalism; and quantitativism versus qualitativism.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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These inherited problems include the following: conscious / volitional versus unconscious / involuntary mentalisms; contentual objectivism versus contentual subjectivism; environmentalism versus nativism; monopsychism versus polypsychism; '' '' 'mechanism versus vitalism' '' ''; and quantitativism versus qualitativism.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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These inherited problems include the following: conscious / volitional versus unconscious / involuntary mentalisms; contentual objectivism versus contentual subjectivism; environmentalism versus nativism; monopsychism versus polypsychism; mechanism versus vitalism; and quantitativism versus qualitativism.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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These inherited problems include the following: conscious / volitional versus unconscious / involuntary mentalisms; contentual objectivism versus contentual subjectivism; environmentalism versus nativism; monopsychism versus polypsychism; '' '' 'mechanism versus vitalism' '' ''; and quantitativism versus qualitativism.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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