| Since the demise of vitalism, we do not think of life per se as something distinct from living things. |
|
| This insistence on empirical proof shows a profound misunderstanding of the essence of vitalism. |
|
| He discarded vitalism, the idea that living things possess a vital essence, that separates them from all other matter. |
|
| They may have translated the archaic terms into scientific-sounding language, but it's the same old vitalism, dressed up as quantum physics. |
|
| Much of this controversy stemmed from the argument of mechanism versus vitalism. |
|
| God has his own timetable for working his wonders, and a commitment to vitalism is hardly a robust expression of faith. |
|
| He gives them flesh and blood of sorts, through a pictorial medium which is tantamount to a new kind of vitalism. |
|
| It is often rooted in mysticism and a metaphysical belief in vitalism. |
|
| Unlike his Italian counterparts, Nolde looked to the art of non-Europeans as repositories for an authentic mysticism and vitalism that had been lost in industrial Europe. |
|
| Perhaps because of his leanings toward vitalism, he also became interested in parapsychology. |
|
| Often associated with vitalism, finalism concurrently fell into disregard with the growing successes of biochemistry and molecular biology. |
|
| So imagine a world in which plants and animals instantiate the key property associated with vitalism, viz., élan vital. |
|
| True, no biologist has really believed in vitalism for more than a century. |
|
| One approach called vitalism proposed the existence of an anima, or sensitive soul, which regulated the body. |
|
| Energy medicines are based upon variants of the metaphysical theory known as vitalism, a theory that has been dead in the West for over a century. |
|
| But for long after that the elaborate organization of living things remained daunting and mysterious, and left plenty of room for vitalism as a respectable concept. |
|
| In 1850 Helmholtz drove another nail into the coffin of vitalism. |
|
| Rather, they were critics of orthodox belief, wedded rather to skepticism, deism, vitalism, or perhaps pantheism. |
|
| In the days when finalism and vitalism were blended into a single, all-encompassing theory, the philosophical position had the merit of being internally consistent. |
|
| His basic idea of vitalism is more relevant today than ever and can even be reinterpreted and transposed to accord with Bachtin's culture of laughter. |
|
|
|
| This contradicted the widely held doctrine of vitalism, which claimed that chemicals made by living organisms could never be made in the laboratory. |
|
| Archeological and historical evidence suggests that ancient Japanese religion was characterized by what scholars have called vitalism, priestism and particularism. |
|
| But the philosophical analysis that concludes that we must choose between materialism and some form of vitalism is based on a limited understanding of the options. |
|
| Vitalism is opposed to mechanistic materialism and its thesis that life emerges from a complex combination of organic matter. |
|
