Panpsychism Definition

păn-sīkĭzəm
noun
The view that all matter has consciousness.
American Heritage

(philosophy, uncountable) The doctrine that all matter has a mental aspect. (Many panpsychists employ the qualification that only “true individuals" are animated; that is, that things like atoms, molecules, and organisms are animated as atoms, molecules, and organisms, whereas things like rocks, tables, and boots are not animated as themselves, although they do comprise animate elements.)

Wiktionary
(philosophy, countable) A specific panpsychist doctrine or system.
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Other Word Forms of Panpsychism

Noun

Singular:
panpsychism
Plural:
panpsychisms

Origin of Panpsychism

  • Formed by the prefixation of pan- +"Ž psychism after the German Panpsychismus (1874), itself after the Latin pampsychia (1591). Compare the Ancient Greek πάμψυχος (pampsukhos, “in full life") and the Modern Greek παμψυχισμός (pampsychismós, “panpsychism").

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Panpsychism Sentence Examples

  • It is true, also, that on its idealistic side the philosophy of Leibnitz is the source of many current views of panpsychism, of psychophysical parallelism as well as of the.

  • Fechner's panpsychism has a certain affinity both to Stahl's animism and to the hylozoism of materialists such as Haeckel.

  • Fechner's first point was his panpsychism.

  • Fechner was saved from this absurdity, but only to fall into the greater absurdity of his own panpsychism.

  • But his substitute was his own hypothesis of panpsychism, from which he deduced a "cosmorganic " evolution from a " cosmorganic " or original condition of the world as a living organism into the inorganic, by the principle of tendency to stability.

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