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‖ actio in distans|ˌæktɪəʊ ɪn ˈdɪstænz|
Also actio ad distans.
[L., = ‘action upon a thing standing apart’.]
The exertion of force by one body upon another separated from it by space, as in some theories of gravitation; action at a distance. Also fig.
1846W. Hamilton in Reid's Wks. 852/1 Repulsion..remains, as apparently an actio in distans,..inconceivable as a possibility [for inclusion among the primary qualities of body]. 1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 47 In these cases it seems probable that it [sc. hemiopia] is due to an actio in distans, probably to the interruption of fibres proceeding from the occipital lobe. 1901Baldwin Dict. Philos. I. 421/2 Intimately associated with gravitation is the question whether it is really an actio ad distans—whether it takes place without any intervening medium or other agency. 1909W. James Meaning of Truth x. 221 By a sort of actio in distans my statement had taken direct hold of the other fact. 1937A. H. Murray Philos. of James Ward iv. 78 The monads or ‘psychoids’ are qualitatively distinct and are capable of what in scholastic philosophy was called actio in distans. |