Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or involving the theory of vitalism.
- Noting the vital-germ theory of contagion (which see, under
vital ).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Biol.) Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
vitalism
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Examples
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On the other hand, there has been a revival of the ancient tendency towards what is called a vitalistic solution.
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Hence the schools of thought called vitalistic and mechanistic.
Science and Morals and Other Essays Bertram Coghill Alan Windle 1893
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But all their efforts to find a scientific answer to all the so-called vitalistic phenomena were failures. … rejecting the philosophy of reductionism is not an attack on analysis.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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But all their efforts to find a scientific answer to all the so-called vitalistic phenomena were failures. … rejecting the philosophy of reductionism is not an attack on analysis.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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But all their efforts to find a scientific answer to all the so-called vitalistic phenomena were failures. … rejecting the philosophy of reductionism is not an attack on analysis.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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In 1839 he promulgated his famous doctrine of fermentation, in which he stood out firmly against any "vitalistic" explanation of the phenomena, alleging that the presence of micro-organisms in fermenting and putrefying substances was merely incidental, and in no sense causal.
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I'm not saying we should get into these things - but we should be aware, in the background, that when we talk about the power of suggestion - there are lots of effector mechanisms that might be involved in translating that woolly "vitalistic" notion into mechanism.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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I'm not saying we should get into these things - but we should be aware, in the background, that when we talk about the power of suggestion - there are lots of effector mechanisms that might be involved in translating that woolly "vitalistic" notion into mechanism.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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But the primitive story is about exactly the opposite -- God is the amoral "vitalistic" force that is beyond good and evil, and honestly could care less about whether you worship him.
Planet Atheism 2009
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I'm not saying we should get into these things - but we should be aware, in the background, that when we talk about the power of suggestion - there are lots of effector mechanisms that might be involved in translating that woolly "vitalistic" notion into mechanism.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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