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| | Vitalism |
 | | The concept of vitalism led to some lively debates among scientists of particularly the 19th century. | | | Defining the vital spark is the same as defining life. | | | But the search for whatever the "vital spark" was never found an answer. |
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http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/fancher/Vitalism.htm
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| | Vitalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | That element is often referred to as the "vital spark" or "energy" which some equate with the "soul". | | | Experiments in the early 19th century continued to erode support for vitalism in the Western scientific community, beginning with Carl Reichenbach's theory of the Odic force. | | | Vitalism is the doctrine that "vital forces" are active in living organisms, so that life cannot be explained solely by mechanism. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalism
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| | Soul uploading: vitalism: an aside |
| | There was no incontrovertible evidence for this, but such vitalism was the prevailing belief among many biological scientists in the first part of the twentieth century. | | | According to Sunetra Gupta ("A victim of truth: Vitalism was an attempt to reconcile rationality with a sense of wonder," Nature, 407:677, October 12, 2000. | | | In eliminating the bath water of vitalism, too many have thrown out the baby of a real personality, in the image of God. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~mflabar/SoulUploading/vitalism.htm
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| | MYSTICISM - MYSTICISM AND VITALISM |
| | It is in them and they are in it: or, as they put it in their blunt theological way, "the Spirit of God is within you." But they are not satisfied with this statement and this knowledge; and here it is that they part company with vitalism. | | | Finally--though here we must be content with deduction rather than declaration--it leaves in the hands of the mystics that power of attaining to Absolute Reality which they have always claimed: shows them as the true possessors of freedom, the torch-bearers of the race. | | | We have seen that the mystical experience, the fullest all-round experience in regard to the transcendental world which humanity has attained, declares that there are two aspects, two planes of discoverable Reality. |
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http://www.gnostic.org/underhill/mysticism1_0-mysticis-2.html
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| | EXPLAINING EMERGENCE:- towards an ontology of levels |
| | And this is the primary difference between the two versions of the debate, "vitalism versus mechanical materialism" in the 18th and the 19th century, respectively. | | | One of the most far-reaching scientific debates in the 19th century was the one between vitalism and reductionism/mechanistic materialism. | | | VITALISM REDUCTIONISM * GOD is behind everything * GOD is behind everything * Soul = life spirits = immaterial * Immaterial soul is different from life spirits. |
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http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/coPubl/97e.EKS/emerg.html
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| | Vitalism |
| | many people thought that there was a vital life force that living things had and non living things did not. | | | The belief that there is a vital force that is responsible for life and distinguishes living from non living things is called | | | Most people don't believe that any more, but the remnants of this idea persist. |
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http://staff.jccc.net/pdecell/lifeis/lifeis1.html
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| | Re: The How and Why of Vitalism |
| | That is, a vitalist might believe vitalism on the grounds that she has no better explanation (for respiration). | | | Thus, scientific understanding may relatively discourage belief in vitalism (by undermining a natural argument for it) even though it does not present an argument against it. | | | I thought Sober meant that there is a temptation for LACK of understanding to be taken as evidence FOR vitalism. |
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http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober920/_disc2/00000011.htm
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| | The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - vitalism |
| | Keywords: active positivism • Fascism • goodness • mechanism &; narrow positivism • religion • scientism • truth • unity of science • vitalism. | | | Frank, P. The logical and sociological aspects of science. | | | This keyword was found on the following pages: |
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| | Vitalism (formerly The Magical Staff) - Matthew WOOD |
| | In 2000, this book was revised and renamed (Vitalism - The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy, and Flower Essences). | | | Note: The following reviews are based on the first edition (1992) of this book titled The Magical Staff. | | | Discussing the western roots of vitalism, Matthew Wood provides biographies of nine of the leading physicians who have made important and enduring contributions to the science and art of natural medicine since 1500. |
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http://www.minimum.com/b.asp?a=vitalism-wood
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| | vitalism |
| | Vitalism is the metaphysical doctrine that living organisms possess a non-physical inner force or energy that gives them the property of life. | | | Vitalists believe that the laws of physics and chemistry alone cannot explain life functions and processes. | | | Many kinds of alternative therapies or energy medicines are based upon a belief that health is determined by the flow of this alleged energy. |
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| | NCAHF Position Paper on Homeopathy |
| | He owed this to his faith in vitalism, which holds that life is a spiritual, nonmaterial process and that the body contains an innate wisdom that is its own healing force. | | | A British homeopath explained its vitalism (Twentyman, 1982): | | | Vitalism appeals to so-called "Holistic" or "New Age" medicine devotees, who prefer a metaphysical view of life processes, and readily accept homeopathy despite its scientific deficiencies. |
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| | vitalism from FOLDOC |
| | vitalism was a reaction against the currents of materialism and mechanistic determinism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. | | | The vitalists posited that human beings are not purely physical but contain some kind of spiritual component or "vital essence". | | | In practice, since the vitalists could not deny the progress of materialist science, they advocated a kind of dualism of matter and life. |
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| | Intelligent design (ID), the new vitalism |
| | ID appeals to an intellectual yearning for a designer, but like classical vitalism, it's a sterile conjunction of the argument from ignorance with the argument from incredulity. | | | What did in vitalism was not only improved understanding, but its scientific sterility. | | | In the 19th century, understanding of metabolism developed and evidence against "spontaneous generation" became convincing. |
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| | Astrology & Health: The Vital Force |
| | He has been engaged in the commercial production of herbal tinctures and has been a consultant on the manufacturing of herbal tinctures to the herbal industry in Britain. | | | It must also be noted that, in contrast to it being out of date, vitalism is still currently found in many guises within different cultural medical traditions of the world, such as the Arabic, Chinese and Indian to mention a few. | | | The vital force is also seen as the substance out of which all ideas are formed. |
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| | Vitalism |
| | Being vitalistic, all manifestations are merely expressions that present themselves perfectly following whatever sets of circumstances preceded them. | | | Vitalism is from the word "vital" which means necessary. | | | Vitalism, for me, means respecting the intelligence behind every situation, knowing that everything has a definite purpose, whether the purpose is known or not. |
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| | Dynamism - Vitalism |
| | It presupposesthe material and is based on a mystical belief system. | | | = The theory or doctrine that life processesarise from or contain a nonmaterial vital principle and cannotbe explained entirely as physical and chemical phenomena. | | | The theory of the origin of disease from changeor alteration of vital force. |
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http://www.heilkunst.com/goethean/dynamism.htm
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| | Vitalism |
| | To understand more about this website as a resource for spiritual seekers please visit: | | | Vitalism The theory that the phenomena of organic life cannot be explained by the properties of physical matter alone, and that consequently they must be due to some nonphysical vital principle. | | | Vitalism is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness. |
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| | Vitalism |
| | question that leads me to believe in VITALISM, suspending judgment | | | has seen a person die watches vitalism in action. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Vitalism |
| | The 18th century continued to be marked by unsupported theories. | | | Vitalism, philosophy that living organisms are distinct from nonliving entities by possessing a “vital force.” This vital force energizes living... |
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| | ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Vitalism |
| | Vitalism, an aspect of the philosophy of idealism (the claim that ideas, or abstract and immaterial essences precede and give rise to the material)... | | | After World War I, a reaction to the overintellectualized literature of the early 1900s was led by Hendrik Marsman, who championed the cause of “... |
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| | WHAT IS VITALISM ? |
| | This vital force uses biochemical or physical mechanisms to create and maintain a living body. | | | Vitalists perceive a living body as having more than biochemical or physical properties. | | | Although vitalists do not deny the value of biochemical and physical studies, they believe that such work will not lead to a complete understanding of life. |
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| | Lamarck's Vitalism |
| | Lamarks vitalism has lent itself to many criticisms, of the more popularly known is how his theories apply to the example of the giraffe. | | | Vitalism was used to explain a species' ability to adapt; it is better known as the theory of inheritance and of acquired characteristics (it is important to note that the study of genetics was not yet known to Lamark and other scientists). | | | Similar to prior theorists, Lamark also proposed that certain organisms could be placed into different levels within nature, or the scala nature, thus organisms could be ranked in some way, shape, or form. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Philosophy of Immanuel Kant |
| | In theology his non-dogmatic notion of religion influenced Ritschl, and his method of transforming dogmatic truth into moral inspiration finds an echo, to say the least, in the exegetical experiments of Renan and his followers. | | | Some philosophers and theologians have held that the objective data on which the Catholic religion is based are incapable of proof from speculative reason, but are demonstrable from practical reason, will, sentiment, or vital action. |
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| | vitalism |
| | a doctrine that ascribes the functions of a living organism to a vital principle distinct from chemical and physical forces. |
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| | hs413_vitalism |
| | Gupta, Sunetra (2000) "A victim of truth: vitalism was an attempt to reconcile rationality with a sense of wonder" Nature Oct. 12 v.407(6805) pp. | | | This book is in the Reserve collection and relevant pages can be copied upon request. | | | A search for 'vitalism' in Expanded Academic ASAP provides a number of full text, interesting articles. |
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http://www.une.edu.au/library/faqs/hs413_vitalism.htm
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| | vitalism - definition from Biology-Online.org |
| | (Science: biology) The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces. |
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| | Wordsmyth |
| | the doctrine that a vital force radically different from all physical and chemical phenomena causes and sustains life. |
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| | Vitalism - OD Board |
| | We must recognize the vitality which runs through this metaphysical world, and that defines the spirit of our culture. | | | This is Vitalism, the code of thought and code of life to which we must adhere if we are to break the imprecation now hovering above the head of our civilization. | | | We must recognize our position within the cosmos, the natural order of things, as creative human beings, members of a Folk endowed with qualities others envy. |
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| | vitalism |
| | Although Wöhler's synthesis of urea posed a serious empirical challenge to this point of view, it was only with the production of an organic substance, acetic acid, from its elements, by the German chemist Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe in 1845, that belief in vitalism was finally undermined. |
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| | vitalism - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | noun: (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry | | | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "vitalism" is defined. | | | We found 25 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word vitalism: |
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| | Catalogue Five A-D |
| | For physics, Descartes represented the rejection of the scholastic physics of matter and form, and its replacement by a mechanical physics of matter and motion. | | | So in biology, he stood for mechanism and the rejection of Aristotelian vitalism.” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy) (EB) |
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| | eBay - Book: Vitalism (ISBN: 1556433409) |
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| | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- Metaphysics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Change in a monad is the intelligible, constantly and continuously (recalling here the principle of continuity discussed above) unfolding being of a thing, from itself, to itself. | | | But every branch of the plant, every part of the animal, and every drop of its vital fluids, is another such garden, or another such pool. | | | Leibniz writes: Every portion of matter can be thought of as a garden full of plants, or as a pond full of fish. |
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| | V - Vitalism |
| | Should Vitalism Be a Subject of Study by Modern Day Chiropractic? |
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| | CiteULike: Tag vitalism |
| | posted to essentialism selectionism vitalism by sngourlay as |
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