synechism

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noun That tendency of philosophical thought which insists upon the idea of continuity as of prime importance in philosophy and, in particular, upon the necessity of hypotheses involving true continuity.

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This doctrine he called “synechism,” a word deriving from the Greek preposition that means “(together) with.”

Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
This pan-psychistic view, combined with synechism, meant for Peirce that mind is extended in some sort of continuum throughout the universe.

Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
Pluralism rejects the solution offered by scholastic dualism and strives, with but little success, to oppose to Monism its own theory of synechism or panpsychism (see Pragmatism).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
If one prefers a Greek name, he says, the unity may be called synechism.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
[Footnote 1: Compare the douma with what Perry aimed at.] [Footnote 2: Compare Appendix B, as to what I mean here by 'real' casual activity.] with an express doctrine of 'synechism' or continuity, the two doctrines merging into the higher synthesis on which he bestows the name of 'agapasticism (_loc.cit. _, iii, 188), which means exactly the same thing as Bergson's' évolution créatrice. '

A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876