生せい気き論ろん

noun

vitalism

A philosophical and historical biological doctrine that living organisms are fundamentally different from non-living entities because they possess a non-physical 'vital force'.

• 生せい気き論ろんは、生せい命めいには物ぶつ理り化か学がくでは説せつ明めいできない特とく別べつな力ちからがあると考かんがえる。

  Vitalism holds that life possesses a special force that cannot be explained by physics and chemistry.