Crossword-Solution: VITALISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vitalism | n. | The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “VITALISM”
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| philosophical doctrine that the phenomena of life cannot be explained in purely mechanical terms | 1 answer |
| natural history | 3 answers |
| nature study | 3 answers |
| Genetics | 5 answers |
| BIOLOGY | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with VITALISM (5)
Then (1866), as now, being convinced of the unity of nature, the fundamental identity of the agencies at work in the inorganic and the organic worlds, I discarded vitalism, teleology, and all hypotheses of a mystic character.
This "mechanical teleology" is a valuable extension of Darwin's monistic principle of selection to the whole field of cellular physiology and histology, and is wholly destructive of dualistic vitalism.
Now, in Spencer, evolution gave us a vitalist mechanic or mechanical vitalism, and the appeal seemed cut off.
The advance in the study of biology and the rise of Neo-Vitalism, occasioned by an appreciation of the inadequacy of any explanation of life in terms purely physical and chemical, made the demand for a new statement, in greater harmony with these views, imperative.
Semon makes one rather candid admission, “The impossibility of interpreting the phenomena of physiological stimulation by those of direct reaction, and the undeception of those who had put faith in this being possible, have led many on the _backward path of vitalism_.” Semon assuredly will never be able to complete his theory of “Mneme” until, guided by the experience of Jennings and Driesch, he forsakes the blind alley of mechanisticism and retraces his steps to reasonable vitalism.
Quotes with VITALISM (2)
It is of course no secret to contemporary philosophers and psychologists that man himself is changing in our violent century, under the influence, of course, not only of war and revolution, but also of practically everything else that lays claim to being "modern" and "progressive." We have already cited the most striking forms of Nihilist Vitalism, whose cumulative effect has been to uproot, disintegrate, and "mobilize" the individual, to substitute for his normal stability a…
In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.