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Vitalism
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Vitalism (noun)
- The theory or doctrine that life processes arise from or contain a nonmaterial vital principle and cannot be explained entirely as physical and chemical phenomena.
- In biology, the doctrine that ascribes all the functions of an organism to a vital principle distinct from chemical and other physical forces.
- The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.
- The philosophy life has a spiritual element that cannit ve reproduced in a labiratory.