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A Materialistic Interpretation of Life

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

William Seifriz
William Seifriz*
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pa.
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Extract

The attribute of living is due either to a specific state of matter or to a distinctive kind of energy. All possible interpretations of these two concepts are materialistic with one exception. There is said to be a kind of energy apart from this world. Such an assumption is vitalistic.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 1939 , pp. 266 - 284
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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Notes

1 I am indebted to a number of associates for information on several subjects here discussed, but to none so much as to Dr. John Northrop, to whom I express my gratitude for his helpful and delightfully stimulating letters dealing with the properties of proteins, enzymes, and viruses; but I relieve him of all responsibility for the deductions made from the information obtained.