Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe belief that apparently distinct features of a person (such as body vs. soul) are actually just different aspects, or ways of looking at, of a unified entity.
Psychophysiology proliferated with Cartesian interactionism, Liebnizian parallelism, and Spinozistic double aspectism.
1971, Jacob Robert Kantor, The aim and progress of psychology and other sciences2 more examples
But despite the admonition, this triple aspectism disintegrates as the volume becomes divided into three parts, knowledge, feeling, and will.
1949, Benjamin Wolstein, Experience and valuation: a study in John Dewey's naturalism, page 12...and in his zeal to do justice to all the facts his categories proliferate into at least 25 or 26 pairs of polar opposites, each pair of which may be discussed in terms of his nine types—onepole-ism, other-pole-ism, dualism, and aspectism, each in both extreme and modified forms, and organicism as the ninth and central type.
1958, The Journal of Philosophy - Volume 55, page 56
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