neo-vitalistn.adj.

1899 J. A. Thomson Sci. of Life 9 The rise of a school of ‘neovitalists’, who have helped to save the science from self-conceit by their emphasis on the partial nature of all physiological analysis.

1937 Sci. Monthly 45 53/2 Those [metaphysicians] of the first school (the ‘Vitalists’ and ‘Neo-Vitalists’) hold that the laws derived by science for dead nature have only a limited application to the operation of the psyche and to the actions of man.

1981 Russ. Rev. 40 286 Others have defined me as a vitalist, a neovitalist, a fideist, idealist, mechanist, mystic.

1910 Mind 19 254 A treatment of some leading topic from the neo-vitalist point of view would have made the volume more representative in character.

1920 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God (ed. 2) p. vi I have added some detailed criticism of recent neo~vitalist statements from which I wish to dissociate myself.

1966 C. G. Hempel Philos. Nat. Sci. vi. 72 All that the neovitalist doctrine enables us to do is to make the post factum pronouncement.

1998 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 30 Oct. In spite of the nonsense and error, neovitalist sloppiness and personal indulgence, this panoramic view of a lost world is exciting and fun.