VITALISTS Antonyms

• anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny

• someone with great regard for material possessions

• someone who thinks that nothing exists but physical matter

• a philosopher who subscribes to the doctrine of mechanism

• an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms

• a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology)

• of or relating to positivism

• someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes

• a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them

• a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly

• a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style

• of or relating to the theory of reductionism