@misc{Lexicon of Arguments,
title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024},
author = {Mayr,Ernst},
subject = {Physicalism},
note = {I 23
Physicalism/Descartes/Mayr: all organisms except the human are nothing but machines.
>R. Descartes.
Camps: Johannes Müller, Justus von Liebig, H.v. Helmholtz, Emil Dubois Reymond
I 26
PhysicalismVs "Vitality": proof that work can be completely converted into heat.
Ironically, however, the terms "energy", "movements" of the physicalists were just as little clarified as the "vital force" of the vitalists.
>Vitalism, >Energy, >Motion.
I 27
"Movement"/Dubois Reymond: the understanding of nature is a reduction of the changes in the body world to movements of atoms. A constant sum of kinetic and potential energy, so nothing would remain to be explained.
>Explanations, >Physics, >Laws of nature.},
note = { Mayr I Ernst Mayr This is Biology, Cambridge/MA 1997 German Edition: Das ist Biologie Heidelberg 1998
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