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Panpsychism - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Panpsychism : \Pan*psy"chism\, n. [See Pan-; Psychic.]
The theory that all nature is psychical or has a psychical
aspect; the theory that every particle of matter has a
psychical character or aspect. -- Pan*psy"chic, a. --
Pan*psy"chist, n. -- Pan`psy*chis"tic, a.
Fechner affords a conspicuous instance of the
idealistic tendency to mysterize nature in his
panpsychicism, or that form of noumenal idealism which
holds that the universe is a vast communion of spirits,
souls of men, of animals, of plants, of earth and other
planets, of the sun, all embraced as different members
in the soul of the world. --Encyc. Brit.
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