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n. - Use of the science of life principles in explaining human especially social behavior.

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  • They are, I believe, rooted in the nature of things, but not properly accounted for by the "biologism" of some versions of natural law.
  • Tallis spoke with withering disdain for the overreaching claims of reductive "biologism" and "Darwinitis," which "confuse our biological roots with our cultural leaves."
  • Reduction to physiologism or biologism don't seem feasible after Behe's or Wolfram's IC arguments.
  • And I, too, like Dr. Tolpin, find Erik Erikson's avuncular wisdom more congenial than Freud's relentless biologism.
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