Vitalogy differs from natural science because it studies lived life, not matter.
Evidence
The natural sciences (biology, chemistry, etc.) must be distinguished from vitalogy as a science of life lived and as a science of thought. While the natural sciences are developed in laboratories, vitalogy is developed in an academic surrounding. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 234
Categorization
Category: Definitional Content
- DEFINE: Delimits vitalogy’s scope against the natural sciences.
Related
- Vitalogy differs from natural sciences as a science of lived life (similarity 0.93)
- Vitalogy is the science of reflected life rooted in culture and everyday living. (similarity 0.86)
- In African Vitalogy life and death are different modes of living (similarity 0.86)
- In Vitalogy life and being each decline into primary modes (similarity 0.83)
- The doctrine of Vital Force unites Western Being and African Life (similarity 0.81)
- African thought roots all reflection in everyday lived culture (similarity 0.81)
- Academic vitalogists critically re-examine everyday life to translate tradition cross-culturally (similarity 0.80)
- Life is the single enduring reality underlying all thought and beings. (similarity 0.79)