Definition of Vitalistic. Meaning of Vitalistic. Synonyms of Vitalistic

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Definition of Vitalistic

Vitalistic
Vitalistic Vi`tal*is"tic, a. (Biol.) Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of a special vital principle.

Meaning of Vitalistic from wikipedia

- imbalance in vital forces. The notion that bodily functions are due to a vitalistic principle existing in all living creatures has roots going back at least...
- inferential reasoning of the scientific method, and relies on deductions from vitalistic first principles rather than on the materialism of science. However, most...
- demonstrated by scientific testing." Several authors have pointed to the vitalistic energy which reiki is claimed to treat, with one saying, "Ironically,...
- advocated the use of single drugs at lower doses and promoted an immaterial, vitalistic view of how living organisms function. The term homeopathy was coined...
- mind. The philosopher David Skrbina considers La Mettrie an adherent of "vitalistic materialism": To him, mind was a very real entity, and clearly it was...
- prin****l contribution was to establish protoplasm as incompatible with a vitalistic theory of life. Attempts to investigate the origin of life through the...
- overeating, tea, coffee, and alcohol. He described the body in spiritual and vitalistic terms with "absolute reliance upon the cosmic forces of man's nature"...
- that ethnographers elsewhere tagged millenarian, messianic, nativistic, vitalistic, revivalistic, or culture-contact or adjustment movements". "Cargo cults"...
- which included: "The teaching of the vertebral subluxation complex as a vitalistic construct that claims that it is the cause of disease is unsupported by...
- effective at all". David Gorski has commented that Fuhrman has promoted a vitalistic view of food and the pseudoscientific idea of detoxification. Dietitian...