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- noun philosophy One who rejects
mechanism .
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anti- + mechanist
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Lorenz Oken (17791815), one of the leaders of the German Naturphilosophie movement, published an antimechanist treatise that taught the superiority of intuitively derived concepts, expressed a belief in the archetypal polarities of nature, and championed a search for ideal types and a teleological unity in nature.
1809 2001
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