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n. - One who believes in the doctrine that phenomena are only partly controlled by mechanical forces, and are in some measure self-determining.

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  • The ancients had a kind of vitalist idea of life and intelligence and all the god-concepts seem rooted in it. ofro
  • The ancients had a kind of vitalist idea of life and intelligence and all the god-concepts seem rooted in it. normdoering
  • The extension to “most” is tricky, since I don’t know where that puts believers in some kind of vitalist view of biology.
  • I think the vitalist version comes up in the next bracket.
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