Anatomism

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Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art.
2. The doctrine that the anatomical structure explains all the phenomena of the organism or of animal life.
3. The quality of not being atomic, but rather, being composed ofmultiple separable parts.

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The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.

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.

Weak anatomism, however, seems to Fodor and Lepore to be a position they need not bother with.

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.

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