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  • noun philosophy One who rejects mechanism.

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anti- +‎ mechanist

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  • Lorenz Oken (1779–1815), one of the leaders of the German Naturphilosophie movement, published an antimechanist treatise that taught the superiority of intuitively derived concepts, expressed a belief in the archetypal polarities of nature, and championed a search for ideal types and a teleological unity in nature.

    1809 2001

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