English Dictionary

psychism

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(philosophy) The old doctrine that there is a fluid (continuity) universally diffusing, and equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.

日本語の意味

すべての生物に普遍的に行き渡り、同等に生命活動を促す流体が存在し、その流体が各生物の組織の違いにより異なる働きをするという、古い哲学上の学説

Although dismissed by many modern philosophers, psychism once held that a universally diffusing animating fluid permeated all living beings, and that differences in their actions arose solely from variations in individual organization.

多くの現代哲学者には退けられているが、すべての生物に普遍的に拡散して等しく生命を動かす流動体が存在し、行動の違いは個々の組織の差によるとするかつての教説は、これらの現象を説明していた。

意味（1）

(philosophy) The old doctrine that there is a fluid (continuity) universally diffusing, and equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.

PSYCHISM […] is the word to denote the doctrine that there is a fluid, diffused throughout all nature […]

psychisms （ plural ）