evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
And while Dewey accepts an evolutionary view of reality in general, the idealist has found evolutionism, at least in its biological form, too limited in scope to serve the extensive interests of philosophy.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
The evolutionary conception of life is the foundation of that philosophy, which, however, has little or nothing in common with the materialistic and dogmatic evolutionism of the last century.
From Mr. Faust by Arthur Davison Ficke
Even so late as 1894, a professor of biology at the University of Texas was dismissed, in violation of contract, for teaching evolutionism.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
In assuming dogmatically a certain answer to this question, evolutionism ceases to be scientific, yet it is only in touching on this question that evolutionism reaches the subject-matter of philosophy.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
