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Driesch

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/ driːʃ /

noun

  1. Hans Adolf Eduard (hans ˈaːdɔlf ˈɛdʊɑːd). 1867–1941, German zoologist and embryologist

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She is the stepdaughter of Mary Driesch and Ellen Weeden.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2018

Driesch still tries to reconcile causes and purposes as different “modes of regarding things,” but this device he afterwards abandons.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Driesch started from their ranks, and is a most interesting example of consistent development from a recognition of the impossibilities of the mechanistic position to an individually thought-out vitalistic theory.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

Everywhere Widow Driesch heard people talking about the good season.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various

As Driesch says, “It is not a restoration starting from the wound, it is a substitution starting from a different place.”

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf