Vitalism has a long history in medical philosophies: many traditional healing practices posited that disease results from some imbalance in vital forces.
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10 Facts About Vitalism
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Vitalism inferred the presence of a "formative drive" in living matter.
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Vitalism describes in detail the circulatory, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, endocrine, nervous, and sensory systems in a wide variety of animals but explains that the presence of a soul makes each organism an indivisible whole.
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Vitalism claimed that the behaviour of light and sound waves showed that living organisms possessed a life-energy for which physical laws could never fully account.
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Vitalism is a superseded scientific hypothesis, and the term is sometimes used as a pejorative epithet.
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Vitalism has become so disreputable a belief in the last fifty years that no biologist alive today would want to be classified as a vitalist.
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Vitalism's views became widely known with his first book Mechanism, life and personality in 1913.
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Vitalism has a long history in medical philosophies: many traditional healing practices posited that disease results from some imbalance in vital forces.
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Vitalism has sometimes been criticized as begging the question by inventing a name.
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Vitalism explains that energy exists in discrete packets called quanta.
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