Meanings
plural pampsychisms
- alternativeuncountableusuallyAlternative spelling of panpsychism.
We have an embarrassing number of cosmic personalisms, or pampsychisms, to choose from.
1958, Austin Marsden Farrer, The Freedom of the Will, 2nd edition, Adam & Charles Black, page 1752 more examples
1903 [Charles Schribner's Sons], Duncan Black MacDonald, Development of Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence, and Constitutional Theory, 2008, The Lawbook Exchange, page 251, Here we have the beginning of the doctrine which, later, under the name of Averroism and pampsychism ran like wild-fire through the schools of Europe.
The theory of pampsychism is based on the law of continuity, that we cannot, as we regress downwards from man, draw a definite line and say that here life and activity cease.
1914, Darcy Butterworth Kitchin, Bergson for Beginners, George Allen, page 309
Origin
See panpsychism. The spelling is more true to the Latin and Ancient Greek roots.
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