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| | Astrology & Health: The Vital Force |
 | | This flow of vital force is synonymous with the emotional experience of the person, whereby each individual emotion is seen as a particular wave form within the flow. | | | The premise of vitalism considers the human body and psyche as being animated by the vital force, which starts flowing at the moment of conception and which ceases with the death of the body. | | | In Western medicine, vitalism declined in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with the ascendancy of scientific thinking, though today it is still a central tenet of naturopathic philosophy. |
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http://www.astrologycom.com/vitalism.html
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| | Vitalism |
| | 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. | | | The difficulty encountered by vitalists, as regards the nature of the vital principle and its power of acting upon matter, is fundamental in the entire materialistic philosophy. | | | Also the doctrine of Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734) that the soul is the vital principle and responsible for organic functions in the body, and synonymous with Vitalism. |
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/vitalism
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| | EXPLAINING EMERGENCE:- towards an ontology of levels |
| | The discussion between vitalism and reductionism is one of the best examples of a debate which was continuously influenced by scientific discoveries. | | | Historically conceived, when vitalism was discarded as an unusable concept, a new concept was coined, preserving some of the vitalistic viewpoints; this concept is precisely emergence. | | | If we try to relate these differences between vitalism and reductionism to the concept of emergence, the concept is obviously primarily vitalistic - but it also transforms vitalism, or at least restricts it in a very important aspect. |
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http://www.nbi.dk/~emmeche/coPubl/97e.EKS/emerg.html
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| | NCAHF Position Paper on Homeopathy |
| | 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. | | | Hahnemann believed that diseases represent a disturbance in the body's ability to heal itself and that only a small stimulus is needed to begin the healing process. | | | To progress scientifically homeopathy would have to accept principles of pharmacology and pathology, which run counter to its "laws" of similia and infinitesimals, its potency theory, and notions of the psora and vitalism. |
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http://www.ncahf.org/pp/homeop.html
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| | Soul uploading: vitalism: an aside |
| | I believe that this was done for legitimate scientific reasons, not to prove that there was no such thing as vitalism. | | | Although not an exact parallel, the idea of vitalism and what has happened to it seems related to the question "can we explain and even duplicate the human mind?" | | | It seems to me that there are serious parallels with our conception of the mind. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~mflabar/SoulUploading/vitalism.htm
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| | Vitalism (formerly The Magical Staff) - Matthew WOOD |
| | 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. | | | An essential assumption behind most natural healing therapies is the recognition that a life force flows through and animates the physical body. | | | It is a unique and important look at the history of western medicine from the perspective of vitalism." |
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http://www.minimum.com/b.asp?a=vitalism-wood
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| | Vitalism |
| | Obviously, this concept is a supernatural one, and we have already discussed the fact that modern scientists don't accept the supernatural as a reasonable explanation or answer. | | | These "natural philosophers" called it the vital spark, or the vital principle. | | | Defining the vital spark is the same as defining life. |
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http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/fancher/Vitalism.htm
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| | vitalism - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | noun: (philosophy) a doctrine that life is a vital principle distinct from physics and chemistry | | | vitalism : Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info] | | | vitalism : FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info] |
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http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=vitalism
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| | Vitalism |
| | Vitalism is from the word "vital" which means necessary. | | | Through vitalism, all things are correlated, and connections exist between what may appear to be separate independent systems. | | | Things that are not understood are still vital, still necessary. |
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http://www.gocatalyst.com/faq/Vitalism
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| | MYSTICISM - MYSTICISM AND VITALISM |
| | The primary difference between Vitalism and the classic philosophic schools is this. | | | Directly participating, like all artists, in the Divine Life, they are usually persons of great vitality: but this vitality expresses itself in unusual forms, hard of understanding for ordinary men. | | | It is in essence both a Hellenic and a Christian system of thought. |
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http://www.gnostic.org/underhill/mysticism1_0-mysticis-2.html
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| | Intelligent design (ID), the new vitalism |
| | While vitalism is philosophically legitimate its intellectual sterility excludes it from science. | | | What did in vitalism was not only improved understanding, but its scientific sterility. | | | Mutation and selection could originate processes in self replicating "organisms", but how could the most complex processes arise, for example self-replicating systems, or biological coding machinery? |
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http://www.geocities.com/lclane2/vitalism.html
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| | vitalism |
| | Many kinds of alternative therapies or energy medicines are based upon a belief that health is determined by the flow of this alleged energy. | | | The vitalistic principle goes by many names: chi or qi (China) prana (India and therapeutic touch), ki (Japan); Wilhelm Reich's orgone, Mesmer's animal magnetism, Bergson's élan vital (vital force), etc. American advocates much prefer the term energy. | | | Vitalists believe that the laws of physics and chemistry alone cannot explain life functions and processes. |
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http://skepdic.com/vitalism.html
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| | V - Vitalism |
| | Should Vitalism Be a Subject of Study by Modern Day Chiropractic? |
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http://home.comcast.net/~newagesearch/vitalism.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Vitalism |
| | Vitalism, philosophy that living organisms are distinct from nonliving entities by possessing a “vital force.” This vital force energizes living... | | | The 18th century continued to be marked by unsupported theories. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Vitalism.html
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| | vitalism from FOLDOC |
| | 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. | | | vitalism was a reaction against the currents of materialism and mechanistic determinism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. |
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http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?vitalism
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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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http://au.encarta.msn.com/Vitalism.html
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| | WHAT IS VITALISM ? |
| | This vital force uses biochemical or physical mechanisms to create and maintain a living body. | | | This vital principle animates, coordinates, motivates, and sustains all living organism. | | | 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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http://www.dr-perkins.com/vitalism.html
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| | CiteULike: Tag vitalism |
| | posted to essentialism selectionism vitalism by sngourlay as |
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| | Re: The How and Why of Vitalism |
| | If I understand properly, Paul interprets Sober's claim that "Vitalism is easiest to take seriously when science is ignorant of what lies behind various biological processes" as a claim that scientific understanding (of respiration, for example) should be counted as evidence against vitalism. | | | Thus, one has to tell more complicated stories to make the case for vitalism. | | | That is, a vitalist might believe vitalism on the grounds that she has no better explanation (for respiration). |
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http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober920/_disc2/00000011.htm
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| | Dynamism - Vitalism |
| | = The theory or doctrine that life processesarise from or contain a nonmaterial vital principle and cannotbe explained entirely as physical and chemical phenomena. | | | : a name given to the Stahlians, or followersof Stahl, as attributing the vital phenomena to the operationof an internal force or power acting for the most part independentlyof external causes. | | | 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 - OD Board |
| | We must recognize the vitality which runs through this metaphysical world, and that defines the spirit of our culture. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9384
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| | The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - vitalism |
| | Keywords: biochemistry &; Buffon • cell theory • creationism • Cuvier • Haeckel • Huxley, T.H. Lamarck • materialism • origin of life &; Pasteur • Pouchet • spontaneous generation • vitalism • Wallace. | | | The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - vitalism | | | Frank, P. The logical and sociological aspects of science. |
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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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| | Vitalism |
| | Therefore(so the vitalists argued), any chemicals derived from living things have some of this impossible to reproduce vital force as part of their nature and so could not be made in the lab. | | | The belief that there is a vital force that is responsible for life and distinguishes living from non living things is called | | | many people thought that there was a vital life force that living things had and non living things did not. |
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http://staff.jccc.net/pdecell/lifeis/lifeis1.html
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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. | | | 'Intelligible' means: (i) according to sufficient reason, not random or chaotic; and (ii) acting as if designed or purposed, as if alive - thus Leibniz's contribution to the philosophical tradition of 'vitalism'. | | | 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. |
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/l/leib-met.htm
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| | hs413_vitalism |
| | "Historical context of the concept of vitalism in complementary and alternative medicine" in Micozzi, Marc S. Fundamentals of complementary and alternative medicine. | | | Wood, Clive (1998) "Subtle energy and the vital force in complementary medicine" in Vickers, Andrew (ed) Examining complementary medicine. | | | A few personal favorite examples, starting from macromolecular assembly and increasing in complexity and scale to patterning in vertebrate embryology are discussed to illustrate the nature of biological organization and explore potential underlying chemical principles. |
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http://www.une.edu.au/library/faqs/hs413_vitalism.htm
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| | a doctrine that ascribes the functions of a living organism to a vital principle distinct from chemical and physical forces. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/vitalism
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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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http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/vitalism
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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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| | 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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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08603a.htm
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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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| | 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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http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/V/vitalism.html
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| | Vitalism |
| | has seen a person die watches vitalism in action. | | | question that leads me to believe in VITALISM, suspending judgment |
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