anatomism

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English

Etymology 1

From anatomy +‎ -ism.

Noun

anatomism (uncountable)

  1. The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
    • 1878 May 8 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, April 27, 1878”, in The Spectator, number (please specify the issue number); republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, , volume (please either specify the issue number or |volume=I to VI), New York, N.Y.: D Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
      The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.
      The spelling has been modernized.
  2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.
Translations

Etymology 2

From an- +‎ atom +‎ -ism

Noun

anatomism (uncountable)

  1. The quality of not being atomic, but rather, being composed ofmultiple separable parts.
    • 1997, Pierre Jacob, What Minds Can Do, page 199:
      In terms of the distinction I drew earlier between the possession of generic semantic propertis and the possession of specific semantic properties, I want to say that weak anatomism involves the possession of generic semantic properties; strong anatomism involves the possession of specific semantic properties.
    • 2003, Jane Heal, Mind, Reason and Imagination, page 119:
      Weak anatomism, however, seems to Fodor and Lepore to be a position they need not bother with.
    • 2018, Michael T. Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, page 192:
      In the country of its origin (Germany) and in the country of its adoption (America), Gestalt psychology was a reaction against two "-isms": atomism and anatomism.

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