ideogenetic

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adjective

Originating ideas or images.

First used early 1900sScrabble 15
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Meanings

adjectiveideogenetic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehuman sciencesOriginating ideas or images.First known use early 1900s

    In such an ideogenetic theory, the mind does not form the species, as Matthew claims, but sensation begins with a reception.

    1960, Helen Marie Beha, Matthew of Aquasparta's Theory of Cognition
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    This extreme ideogenetic view would make the function of divine illumination that of a kind of separate active intellect: in fact, God would Himself be an ontologically separate active intellect which infuses ideas into the human mind […]

    2003, Frederick Copleston, History of Philosophy Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy, page 64

    In his ideogenetic view, these fixed ideas constitute the very heart of the symptoms of the disorder. A patient with traumatic hysteria with a paralyzed leg would thus have developed the fixed idea that his leg had become paralyzed […]

    2015, Ellert R. S. Nijenhuis, The Trinity of Trauma, page 30

Origin

From ideo- + -geny + -etic.

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