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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The philosophical doctrine holding that all matter has life, which is a property or derivative of matter.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrine that all matter is endowed with life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable.
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- noun A
philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term hylozoism unites with the conception of the formless material of the world (ὕλη), that of an animating power to which its formations and transformations are due.
The Approach to Philosophy Ralph Barton Perry 1916
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But, with the second successor of Aristotle, Strato of Lampsacus, another kind of hylozoism, clearly materialistic, came into existence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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There is a certain hylozoism which is only a childish, inexperienced way of looking on nature.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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It looks like your book is advocating an idea along the lines of hylozoism?
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In discussing hylozoism and panpsychism, we're not talking about the notion that the universe as a whole is alive and conscious.
Boing Boing 2009
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He believed in a rationally immanent world, but he rejected the hylozoism implicit in Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza.
Obama Lit In South Carolina Proclaims His Committed Christianity 2009
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Kant also asserts that the very possibility of natural science proper depends on the law of inertia, since the rejection of it would be hylozoism, “the death of all natural philosophy” (4: 544).
Kant's Philosophy of Science Watkins, Eric 2007
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But this latest work takes inspiration from hylozoism, the belief that all matter has life.
A Beastly Building Material That Just Might Bite You Tim McKeough 2007
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First, the doctrine of hylozoism asserts that mind or life perme - ates the natural world.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas DAVID G. HALE 1968
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At the same time, the differ - ence between living and nonliving things was less marked, because the ancients tended to assume that all matter possesses power and mobility and is quasi - alive (the assumption that the material world is alive is known as “hylozoism”).
Dictionary of the History of Ideas D. M. BALME 1968
oroboros commented on the word hylozoism
The doctrine that matter is inseparable from life; life is a property of matter. See also hylopathism.
May 15, 2007
yarb commented on the word hylozoism
The Christian Scientist, in funereal, impressive black, discussed the contra-will and pan-psychic hylozoism. The university professor put on a full dress suit and lisle thread gloves...
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 1
August 19, 2008