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hylozoist

Meaning of "hylozoist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HYLOZOIST

ˌhaɪləˈzəʊɪst


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYLOZOIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hylozoist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYLOZOIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hylozoism

Hylozoism is the philosophical point of view that all matter is in some sense alive. This may include the view that "inanimate" matter has latent powers of abiogenesis. The concept dates to the Milesian school of pre-Socratic philosophers and was introduced in English as a term by Ralph Cudworth in 1678.

Definition of hylozoist in the English dictionary

The definition of hylozoist in the dictionary is an adherent of hylozoism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYLOZOIST

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYLOZOIST

hylicism · hylicist · hylobate · hylogeneses · hylogenesis · hyloist · hylomorphic · hylomorphism · hylopathism · hylopathist · hylophagous · hylophyte · hylotheism · hylotheist · hylotomous · hylozoic · hylozoical · hylozoism · hylozoistic · hylozoistically

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYLOZOIST

euroist · foist · frescoist · Hills Hoist · hoist · hyloist · joist · Maoist · moist · quoist · rolled-steel joist · semimoist · Taoist · tattooist · trimmer joist · uphoist · voodooist

Synonyms and antonyms of hylozoist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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hylozoist
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hilozoísta
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hylozoist
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hylozoist
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Hylozoist
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hylozoist
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hylozoist
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hylozoist
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Hylozoist
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hylozoist
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hylozoist
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hylozoist
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hylozoist
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYLOZOIST»

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Subversive Spiritualities: How Rituals Enact the World
What were the forces that made the hylozoist worldview seem unintelligible to someone like Robert Boyle, who nevertheless had earlier in his career serious interests in alchemy, a hylozoist movement? And as Allen Debus has argued, the  ...
Frederique Apffel-Marglin, 2012
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Claims of Knowledge: On the Labor of Making Found Worlds
Thales of Miletus, conventionally nominated from the fourth century B.C. onward as the first Greek philosopher, was a hylozoist, as were his successor, Anaximander, and his grand- successor, Anaximenes. Although Plato and others of his ...
Lawrence E. Hazelrigg, 1989
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The True Intellectual System of the Universe: With a ...
whereof, we ought not to censure every Hylozoist, professing to hold a Deity and a rational soul immortal, for a mere disguised Atheist, or counterfeit histrionical Theist. III. But though every Hylozoist be not therefore necessarily an Atheist, yet  ...
Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, 1845
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H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics
We can see hylozoist parallels in the arts to this style of cybernetic engineering. Brian Eno said he was indebted to Stafford Beer's Brain of the Firm for innovative changes in his music in the 1970s. If classical music consists in the reproduction  ...
Gregory R. Hansell, 2011
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Milton's Warring Angels: A Study of Critical Engagements
Matter together,”53 negotiated between the poles of the heresies — “Atomical atheism” and “Hylozoist atheism” — that Cudworth himself was to document in his True Intellectual System. Where the “Atomick” atheist “supposes the notion or  ...
William Kolbrener, 2008
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Panpsychism in the West
... even through the late 1800s. William Clifford (ca. 1870) and others put forth panpsychist theories of "mind-stuff" that recall the ideas of Democritus. It bears repeating that, apart from Heraclitus, the so-called hylozoist tradition of the ...
David Skrbina, 2005
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The Christian Examiner
Now the Hylozoist is not always an Atheist, for he might believe there was a God who created these wise atoms ; but usually, the Hylozoist believes in the self- existence of his atoms ; and so all taken together constitute God, — who is therefore ...
‎1840
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Christian Examiner
Now the Hylozoist is not always an Atheist, for he might believe there was a God who created these wise atoms ; but usually, the Hylozoist believes in the self- existence of his atoms ; and so all taken together constitute God,— who is therefore ...
‎1840
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Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]
Now the hylozoist is not always an atheist, for he might believe there was a God who created these wise atoms ; but usually, the hylozoist believes in the self - existence of his atoms; and so all taken together constitute God, — who is therefore ...
Theodore Parker, 1911
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Greek Philosophy - 1956
That's an important word, gentlemen. Perhaps you take this next to "myth," because the people who believe the -- in -- in Greeks -- the word -- "matter" is expressed with "hyle," wood. So a man who is a materialist in Greek is called a hylozoist.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, 1997
REFERENCE
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