Finalism is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 238 anagrams from letters in finalism (afiilmns).
First recorded in 1905-10; final + -ism
Yet finalism is not, like mechanism, a doctrine with fixed rigid outlines.
Mechanism and finalism are therefore, here, only external views of our conduct.
Again, in opposition to finalism he urges the variety of living forms.
The theory we shall put forward in this book will therefore necessarily partake of finalism to a certain extent.
Mechanism and finalism agree in taking account only of the bright nucleus shining in the centre.
The point in Bergson's system which seems least in harmony with theistic belief is his criticism and rejection of finalism.
Especially (and this is the point on which finalism has been most seriously mistaken) harmony is rather behind us than before.
But both mechanism and finalism would leave on one side the movement, which is reality itself.
M. Bergson's form of finalism depends upon his conception of life.
finalism has shrunk to the point of never embracing more than one living being at a time.