Vitalism 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 249 anagrams from letters in vitalism (aiilmstv).
First recorded in 1815-25; vital + -ism
Materialistic methods of interpretation were upheld by perhaps the majority of biologists, but vitalism found powerful support.
The unknowable has been questioned: hypotheses have been shaken: vitalism and idealism have been proclaimed.
This, of course, is vitalism, and vitalism in its extreme or animistic form.
The current controversy between mechanism and vitalism enforces the point which I desire to make.
vitalism and teleology are coming back again into biology in new forms.
It is a history that begins with vitalism and ends with mechanism.
There may be many who will regard the fact of equifinality as a proof of vitalism.
His theory is a mixture of vitalism and atomism, designed to eliminate the "fortune and chance" resident in Digby's concept.
In the first of them we were treated to a somewhat belated utterance in opposition to vitalism.
Driesch has tried to show that we are absolutely not able to vitalism.
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