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Hey, do any of you word whizzes out there know what this word means? I ran across it while reading an essay on metaphysics by Nicholas Rescher. In the essay he repeatedly refers to the "hylarchic principle". I looked it up in a number of dictionaries, but found nothing. I still haven't checked out the OED at my library, but I thought I'd see if anyone here might be able to tell me first. Thanks!
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I think it's an order of tree frog.
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The root hyl- is from the Greek hyle meaning matter but the only words I see it in are variants of hylozoism, the doctrine that all matter has life.
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there is also hylotheism, the doctrine that god and Matter are the same. but hylarchic, I believe, refers to "having a wooden head". 
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I went back and painfully searched the text until I found the word. Don't ask me what it means. But for a guess it is something about the importance which we attribute to matter.
Then in
Metaphysics: what difficulties concerning entity in abstract, substantial
forms, hylarchic principles, plastic natures, substance and accident,
principle of individuation, possibility of Matter’s thinking, origin of ideas,
the manner how two independent substances so widely different as Spirit
and Matter, should mutually operate on each other? what difficulties, I s
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Well, I'm not sure that that explains it a whole lot more, but I certainly do appreciate all the effort that you put into finding that out wwh.
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I find one other reference, to Henry More's hylarchic principles....
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Hi, joel, thanks for a question that made me laugh! We have a member here whose screen name is Hyla, and my first thought at seeing your word was that he could open a store called Hyla 'R Chic. (For non-US'ns, there's a big chain of stores called Toys R Us here.) Gee, Hyla, what would you sell?  Tsuwm, I think your first response may have hit the nail on the head. 
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hylarchic, I believe, refers to "having a wooden head"
Not true, it's solid granite, with a little tunnel drilled through so you can see light if you look in my ears.
As to the true sense of the word, ignore tsuwm and his reference-dependent comrades-in-words: a hylarchic system is one in which things are organized just the way I like 'em. Sadly, it is purely theoretical.
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