The organismic theory of the state. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A common result for organismic design is modularity. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin and neutrality - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Finally there are the misconstructions caused by the organismic metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [Confirmation Bias and ID] Reference
Thus, it is possible that organismic death does not occur in this species!. From Wordnik.com. [January « 2008 « Gerry Canavan] Reference
Is human death simply an instance of organismic death, ultimately a matter of biology?. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
This standard is generally associated with an organismic definition of death (as explained below). From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
The whole-brain standard does not follow straightforwardly from the organismic conception of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
So DST involves the broadening of the conception of what the causal agents for organismic development are. From Wordnik.com. [The Biological Notion of Individual] Reference
After all, the cessation of my identity may have nothing to do with anything like organismic (or brain) death. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Identity and Ethics] Reference
According to the organismic definition, death is the irreversible loss of functioning of the organism as a whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
Or, more fully, they are differences in various organismic capacities to survive and reproduce in their environment. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Winter Solstice] Reference
Recall that the whole-brain standard is generally thought to receive support from an organismic definition of death. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
And it came with the entirely arbitrary, ideologically tainted qualifier of "random" to describe organismic adaptation. From Wordnik.com. [Darwin "Replaced God?"] Reference
But both the actual structure of society and the attitude of men towards society, were largely holistic and organismic. From Wordnik.com. [ART FOR ART'S SAKE] Reference
Further, he is interested only in the effect the groups have on organismic adaptedness and expected reproductive success. From Wordnik.com. [Units and Levels of Selection] Reference
In his view, replicator selection should be seen as an alternative framework for both organismic and group selection models. From Wordnik.com. [Units and Levels of Selection] Reference
I predict that it will eventually become clear that the organismic design argument should never have been understood in this way. From Wordnik.com. [Reply to John West on ID and Metaphysics - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Emergent evolutionism has, indeed, an affinity for organismic and epigenetic ideas, which have some - times been combined with it. From Wordnik.com. [EVOLUTIONISM] Reference
Examples include death as the irreversible cessation of organismic functioning and human death as the irreversible loss of personhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
I the dominance of idealism evaporated, leaving only the organismic philosophy of Whitehead as a powerful speculative metaphysical influence. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800] Reference
For one, the whole-brain standard is prima facie plausible as a specification of the organismic definition of death in the case of human beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Definition of Death] Reference
It is an important focus of environmental interaction, but other entities, both below and above the organismic level, can also function as vehicles. From Wordnik.com. [Replication] Reference
The organismic, “what you can do for your country” implies that the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » On Patriotism] Reference
Most obviously, the number of environmental states and organismic responses can be increased, but there are other modifications that are more interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Evolutionary Epistemology] Reference
The current state of the study of organismic development ignores this many-many relationship and is structured on the model of the automobile assembly plant. From Wordnik.com. [The Genotype/Phenotype Distinction] Reference
Even in messy cases biologists are fairly successful in separating out environmental causes from genetic, or organismic, causes of differential reproduction. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Winter Solstice] Reference
LAURIE B. FEINE, an amaranth taxonomy and germplasm consultant, earned her B.A. from the University of Colorado in environmental, population, and organismic biology in 1976. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
"New buildings have gone up, and these departments are expanding, while the organismic areas of science — which emphasize a more ecological approach — are being downsized.". From Wordnik.com. [The Kept University] Reference
Instead, information is defined as that which leads to action, which means that the natural world is already meaningful and the meanings co-evolve through organismic interaction. From Wordnik.com. [Response to Dembski's Accusations - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The preoccupation with "migrating" organismic intelligence into cyberspace?. From Wordnik.com. [amor mundi] Reference
Anne Pringle, associate professor of organismic and evolutionary biology, is out to change that. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Rather, the Kingdom "must necessarily grow into maturity just as much from within," like any other organismic entity. From Wordnik.com. [One Cosmos] Reference
Mendoza, 28, of Thornton, already earned a bachelor's degree in environmental, population and organismic biology from CU-Boulder in 2004. From Wordnik.com. [Media Newswire] Reference
• Conflict - situation arising from the presence of two opposing drives • Need - organismic condition that requires a certain activity. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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