Word: animist
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...departure from the Stagirite once allowed, there was no end of change and emendation. The next innovator was Politico, an Italian. This philosopher was an Animist, that is to say, he was full of life. He first introduced the name of the Regulative Faculty. By Anaxagoras, the same thing was called ???, Reason. But aside from being a vague and ambiguous term, Politico, the acutest of his contemporaries, saw that calling this Faculty Reason involved a contradiction of ter???, since Reason could scarcely ever be said to have any influence over its action. Hence he appropriately dubbed it the Regulative Faculty...