anatomism

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

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

The stretched and vivid anatomism of their great figure painters.

2

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

noun

1

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.

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

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