单词 | evolutionism |
释义 | evolutionismn. Belief in or advocacy of a scientific or philosophical theory of evolution; spec. (a) acceptance of the occurrence of evolutionary change during the history of life, the Earth, etc.; (b) (adherence to) a philosophical doctrine which supposes evolution or development (esp. inherently progressive development) to be a fundamental principle of human or of universal history; (c) the application of evolutionary assumptions or principles in a particular sphere or field of study (cf. developmentalism n.).In the context of religious responses to scientific theory, often contrasted with creationism. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > theories > [noun] > of genetics or evolution theory of preformation1756 Darwinizing1807 development hypothesis1845 generationism1847 theory of evolution1858 Darwinism1860 Darwinianism1861 monogenesis1864 monogenism1865 monogeny1865 pangenesis1868 evolutionism1869 phylogeny1869 polygenism1871 derivation1874 phylogenesis1875 transformism1878 biogenetic law1879 gastraea theory1879 fortuitism1881 organicism1883 hereditism1884 kinetogenesis1884 Lamarckianism1884 Lamarckism1884 neo-Lamarckianism1884 monogenesy1885 neo-Lamarckism1887 preformationism1890 neo-Darwinism1891 blastogenesis1893 Haeckel-ismus1894 Weismannism1894 preformism1895 Haeckelism1899 mutation theory1902 directivity1903 Mendelianism1903 Mendelism1903 hereditarianism1906 mutationism1912 selectionism1912 hologenesis1931 parsimony1931 Morganism1934 Lysenkoism1948 neutralism1972 punctuated equilibrium1972 saltationism1975 punctuationism1977 punctuationalism1978 adaptationism1980 geneticism1984 adaptationalism1985 1869 T. H. Huxley in Sci. Opin. 28 Apr. 487/1 The three schools of geological speculation which I have termed Catastrophism, Uniformitarianism, and Evolutionism. 1873 E. F. Burr Pater Mundi v. 112 No organic chain long enough to connect two species confessedly different has been brought to light. This could not have happened had evolutionism been true. 1875 F. M. Müller Chips from German Workshop IV. ix. 476 Haeckel denies all necessity of admitting a conscious agent; and von Hartmann sees in what is called the philosophy of evolutionism the strongest confirmation of idealism. 1888 Dict. National Biogr. at Darwin, Erasmus The permanent interest in his writings depends upon his exposition of the form of evolutionism afterwards expounded by Lamarck. 1914 Philos. Rev. 23 577 Though Bergson inconsistently explicitly declares his belief in a transcendent deity, prior and external to the evolving world, the real tendency..of his romantic evolutionism is towards temporalistic pantheism. 1953 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 10 1 Although the term ‘evolutionism’ taken by itself is commonly understood to refer to the doctrine which stems from Darwin and Spencer, I think it preferable..to use the qualified expression ‘naturalistic evolutionism’ in order to distinguish it from an earlier Romantic-Idealistic movement of thought associated with the name of Hegel. 1976 I. M. Lewis Social Anthropol. in Perspective ii. 52 Durkheim's work marks the turning point between evolutionism and functionalism and provides the bridge to Malinowksi and Radcliffe-Brown, the authentic founders of modern social anthropology. 1998 A. Fadiman Ex Libris 50 The ‘home sanctuary’ seemed to him the last bulwark against irreligion, evolutionism..and female emancipation. 2001 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 29 Nov. 64/1 Theistic evolutionism would seem to demote the shaper of the universe to a deus absconditus who long ago set some processes in motion and then withdrew from the scene. 2005 Nature 6 Oct. 815/2 Ruse has in mind a distinction between evolution as a fact, evolution as a theory that offers mechanisms for evolutionary change, and ‘evolutionism’—a metaphysical, naturalistic world-view imbued with values as well as a strictly scientific narrative. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1869 |
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