evolutionism
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Lately, this view, "cultural evolutionism," has been revived and given a new vocabulary.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the truth is boiled down, it appears that Dewey's historical method, in so far as he had one, was based on biological evolutionism.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
If that is a legitimate theory it increases our respect for what we call the inanimate, but it does not make our biological evolutionism any easier, nor are we any nearer explaining life.
From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson
But both these sorts of evolutionism have in common the emphasis on progress, that is, upon a continual change from the worse to the better, or from the simpler to the more complex.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
In assuming dogmatically a certain answer to this question, evolutionism ceases to be scientific, yet it is only in touching on this question that evolutionism reaches the subject-matter of philosophy.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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