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vitalism
vitalism Vitalism is the metaphysical view that living processes depend on a special vital force separate from ordinary physical and chemical forces, so life cannot be fully explained by physics and chemistry alone.
Vitalism is the metaphysical view that living processes depend on a special vital force separate from ordinary physical and chemical forces, so life cannot be fully explained by physics and chemistry alone. It stands in contrast to mechanistic materialism.