English
emergentism
From emergent + -ism.
Formed from emergent + -ism
Proto-Indo-European *mesg- ‘to dip, sink’
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Proto-Italic *mezgō
Latin mergō ‘to dip, to immerse, to plunge’
Latin ēmergō ‘to emerge’
Latin ēmergēns ‘emerging’
English emergent
Today it means
noun The belief in emergence, particularly as it involves consciousness and the philosophy of mind, and as it contrasts (or not) with reductionism.
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Etymograph / emergentism