Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A believer in the existence of vital force as distinguished from the other forces operative upon animal and vegetable organisms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to
physicist .
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- adjective Of or espousing
vitalism , the doctrine that life cannot be entirely reduced to physical and chemical factors - noun Someone who believes in
vitalism , the doctrine that life cannot be entirely reduced to physical and chemical factors
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- noun one who believes in vitalism
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term many such men favored - "vitalist" - speaks to the hypermasculinity (scenes of rape were popular "classical" subjects) that was the antithesis of those other libertines, the Bohemians (not to be confused with people from Bohemia).
The Magic Pudding And The Great War Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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The term many such men favored - "vitalist" - speaks to the hypermasculinity (scenes of rape were popular "classical" subjects) that was the antithesis of those other libertines, the Bohemians (not to be confused with people from Bohemia).
Archive 2006-10-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006
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The ancients had a kind of vitalist idea of life and intelligence and all the god-concepts seem rooted in it. normdoering
Elliott Sober: What is wrong with Intelligent Design? - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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The ancients had a kind of vitalist idea of life and intelligence and all the god-concepts seem rooted in it. ofro
Elliott Sober: What is wrong with Intelligent Design? - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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You are wanted! "said I, as the door enclosed me with the professor of that branch, who, fortunately for me, was what is called a vitalist -- sticking up for nature, and bitterly denied the Liebigian theory, which refers so many of the living phenomena to chemistry.
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[11] for an explicit discussion of both historical and contemporary 'vitalist' concepts in current epithelial cell physiology
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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[11] for an explicit discussion of both historical and contemporary 'vitalist' concepts in current epithelial cell physiology
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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[11] for an explicit discussion of both historical and contemporary 'vitalist' concepts in current epithelial cell physiology
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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The extension to “most” is tricky, since I don’t know where that puts believers in some kind of vitalist view of biology.
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If Dennett is a materialist, and he admits that subjective experience is real — and he is an anti-vitalist and anti-dualist — then he must also be a panpsychist.
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