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See also:PANPSYCHISM (Gr. 7rav, all; ,See also:writ, soul)
, a philosophical See also:term applied to any theory of nature which recognizes the existence of a psychical See also:element throughout the See also:objective See also:world
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In such theories not only animals and See also:plants but even the smallest particles of See also:matter are regarded as having some rudimentary See also:kind of sensation or " soul," which plays the same See also:part in relation to their objective activities or modifications as the soul does in the See also:case of human beings
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Such theories are the See also:modern scientific or semi-scientific counterparts of the See also:primitive See also:animism of See also:savage races, and may be compared with the See also:hylozoism of the See also:Greek physicists
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In modern times the See also:chief exponents of panpsychist views are See also: |
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