vitalism
the doctrine that phenomena are only partly controlled by mechanical forces, and are in some measure self-determining.
vitalist
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a word derived from
vitalism.
Example Sentences
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But even the vitalist had no need to deny this proposition.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
And, on the other hand, the vitalist must not deny consciousness to non-protoplasmic Nature.
From Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. by J. Arthur Hill
But his own work convinced him of the hopelessness of the task he had undertaken, and he has become as strenuous a vitalist as Butler.
From Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler
Could any vitalist, or Bergsonian idealist have stated his case better?
From The Breath of Life by John Burroughs
These truths are as plain to the mechanist as they are to the vitalist.
From Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative by Chapman Cohen
