Panzoist vs Panzoism - What's the difference?
panzoist | panzoism |
(rare, archaic): Belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.
* 1875 , James McCosh, Ideas in Nature Overlooked by Dr. Tyndall , p.37.
* 1918 , Edward Gleason Spaulding, The New Rationalism , p.34.
* 2005 , David Skrbina, Panpsychism In The West , p. 220.
Panzoist is a derived term of panzoism.
As nouns the difference between panzoist and panzoism
is that panzoist is (archaic): one who believes in panzoism while panzoism is (rare|archaic): belief that the entire universe is a living thing, or is suffused with life.As an adjective panzoist
is of or relating to panzoism.panzoist
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Alternative forms
* pan-zoist * panzooistSee also
* animist * pandeist * pantheistpanzoism
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Alternative forms
* panzooism, pan-zoismNoun
(-)- He holds that there is a pangenesis or panzoism in all animated being. Now, what is this but the "life" of the old zoologists whom they so ridicule?
- But there [is] also panzoism , maintaining that the universe is a living being and has a soul, and anti-intellectualism, holding that genuine intellectual analysis is impossible, both because each thing is infinitely complex and because the removal of a part alters its causal context.
- Why Carus did not use 'hylozoism' is not clear. Regardless, that term is now rarely used, as is also true of the variation panzoism .
