Crossword-Solution: VITALIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vitalist | n. | A believer in the theory of vitalism; -- opposed to physicist. |
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| Opposite of a mechanist. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Sentences with VITALIST (5)
Now, in Spencer, evolution gave us a vitalist mechanic or mechanical vitalism, and the appeal seemed cut off.
And when it comes to this sort of speculation, the materialist is just as much in the dark as the vitalist, and neither can have any advantage over the other, except as the one may adopt the analytic, and the other the synthetic method.
Let him come out then, as the ablest vitalist now living, and boldly assert the presence of the man-_unit_ and the dog-_unit,_ instead of falling back on his bioplastic spinners and weavers of tissue, which are only the servants and willing workers of the one integral unit, or life-directing force, within.
One might indeed be a vitalist in biology, out of pure caution and conscientiousness, without sharing those prejudices; and many a speculative philosopher has been free from them who has been a vitalist in metaphysics.
Bergson, in the more hidden reaches of his thought, seems to be a universal vitalist; apparently an _élan vital_ must have existed once to deposit in inorganic matter the energy stored there, and to set mechanism going.
Quotes with VITALIST (1)
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1957).