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1
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What are the two biological paradigms?

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  1. mechanism/ atomism

2. vitalism

2
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How does chiropractic philosophy relate?

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living human beings are:

  • self-forming (autopoietic)
  • self-organizing (structurally antientropic)
  • self-regulating (homeostatic)
  • self-repairing (self-healing)
3
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Mechanism/atomism believes that life can be completely explained by

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Actions of physical, chemical and electrical forces

4
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Mechanism/atomism is derived from

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Materialism

5
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Mechanism/atomism is a reaction to

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Antiscientific theological doctrines

6
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Mechanism atomism believes that a living thing is composed to

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Inanimate parts

“Whole is equal to sum of its parts”

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Vitalism believes that life and its functions depend on a

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Vital influence

8
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Vital influence is

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Non-physical in nature

9
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Vitalism derives from

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Dualism

10
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Vitalism believes that life =

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Chemistry animated by spirit/force

11
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Vitalism is an ____ doctrine

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Inclusive

12
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Inclusive doctrine of vitalism means

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Matter/chemistry + influence of separate, non-physical entity or field

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2 versions of vitalism

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Extreme vitalism (naive)
Moderate vitalism (critical)
14
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Extreme vitalism believes that matter evolves then,

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Spirit animates it

15
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Extreme vitalism sayings

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“Lifeless corpse”
“He lost his life”
Cat’s “nine lives”

16
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Moderate vitalism believes that vital forces are

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Always a part of the process of living thing

17
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Moderate vitalism in chiropractic philosophy

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Major premise and triune of life

universal and innate intelligence

18
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Organicism opposes the reduction of biology to

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Physics and chemistry

19
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Moderate mechanism expressed as

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Whole is more than the sum of its parts

Additional ingredient is an understanding relationships of the living system

20
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Living human beings are

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Self-forming
Self-organizing
Self-regulating
Self-repairing

21
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Entropy

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Energy equilibrium

22
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Structural entropy

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Disorder in the universe

23
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Structural antientropy (syntropy)

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Development of increased order or organization

24
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Chiropractic is essentially a

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Vitalistic paradigm

25
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A vitalistic approach does not require

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Assumption of beliefs consistent with theistic teleology (NOT religion)

**but it does accomodate such beliefs