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 Howard, Delton Thomas

The predominant interest of evolutionism is in the question of human destiny, or at least of the destiny of Life.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Russell, Bertrand

And it is also the only evolutionism that seems to us to account for the building up of identical complex organs on independent lines of development.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

And while Dewey accepts an evolutionary view of reality in general, the idealist has found evolutionism, at least in its biological form, too limited in scope to serve the extensive interests of philosophy.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas