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imageless, a.|ˈɪmɪdʒlɪs|
[f. image n. + -less.]
a. Without an image or images.
1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. ii. iv. 116 The deep truth is imageless. 1883Sir M. Monier-Williams Relig. Th. India viii. 227 Becaraji has numerous imageless shrines. 1885Miss Harrison Stud. Grk. Art iii. 85 The worship of an imageless Jehovah. a1930D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 214 The gods are nameless and imageless.
b. Special Comb.: imageless thought (see quot. 1934); so imageless thinking.
1896G. F. Stout Analytic Psychol. I. i. iv. 85 An imageless thought is no absurdity, however opposed such a conception may be to..those who..regard consciousness as a kind of picture gallery. 1909E. B. Titchener Lect. Exper. Psychol. Thought-Processes iii. 113 Binet..gives illustrations of imageless thought that must undoubtedly be classed with the conscious attitudes. 1920S. Alexander Space, Time & Deity I. 213 Observation..has convinced us of the existence of ‘imageless thinking’, which seemed so inconceivable to some earlier psychologists. 1921B. Russell Analysis of Mind xi. 226 Similar remarks apply to the general idea of ‘imageless thinking’, concerning which there has been much controversy. 1934H. C. Warren Dict. Psychol. 131/2 Imageless thought, an idea, thought, or train of thinking which is wholly lacking in sensory contents. 1948R. S. Woodworth Contemp. Schools Psychol. (ed. 2) iv. 74 Watson pointed an accusing finger at the ‘imageless thought’ controversy. 1953J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. iii. 74 One outcome of Wundt's work..was the discovery, around 1900, of ‘imageless thought’—a kind of subjective behaviour, noted in the process of thinking, which could not be described as..sensation and perception. 1972Science 12 May 630/2 This casual attitude toward definition means that he need never ask whether..there are ‘imageless’ concepts or thoughts. |