anatomism meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

anatomism

noun

Etymology From anatomy + -ism.

The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.

The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.1878 May 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “TUESDAY, 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[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.

noun

Etymology From an- + atom + -ism.

The quality of not being atomic, but rather, being composed ofmultiple separable parts.

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.1997, Pierre Jacob, What Minds Can Do, page 199:
Weak anatomism, however, seems to Fodor and Lepore to be a position they need not bother with.2003, Jane Heal, Mind, Reason and Imagination, page 119:

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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.2018, Michael T. Turvey, Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective, page 192: