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Definition of Hylozoism
1. n. The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable.
Definition of Hylozoism
1. Noun. A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter. ¹
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Definition of Hylozoism
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Medical Definition of Hylozoism
1. The doctrine that matter possesses a species of life and sensation, or that matter and life are inseparable. Origin: Gr. Wood, matter + life, fr. To live: cf. F. Hylozoisme. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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Literary usage of Hylozoism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"There is a certain hylozoism which is only a childish, inexperienced way of
looking on nature. We are naturally inclined to interpret other existences after ..."
2. Systematic Theology by Charles Hodge (1873)
"3, hylozoism* hylozoism, from v\r), matter, and £cmy, life, is properly the
doctrine that ... In this form hylozoism does not differ from Materialism. ..."
3. The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry (1905)
"hylozoism itself was not a deliberate synthesis of these two conceptions, but a
primitive practical tendency to universalize the conception of life. ..."
4. Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1907)
"... hylozoism — Materialism — Neither of these systems, or any possible theory of
association, supplies or supersedes a theory of perception, ..."
5. Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1894)
"... hylozoism—Materialism—Nei ther of these systems, on any possible theory of
association, supplies or supersedes a theory of perception, or explains the ..."
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