| 释义 |
non-refeˈrential, a.
[non- 3.]
Of hypothesized mental events, such as the awareness of thought or of an image: having no reference to anything beyond themselves.
1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place vi. 305 Purely inspective situations would belong to the latter class. So would pure sensation, the mere awareness of an image, etc... I am inclined to think that pure sensations, etc., are ideal limits rather than actual facts... Let us call situations of the..second kind ‘non-referential’. 1943Mind LII. 176, I..shall say something more about the non-referential interpretation of ‘copy’. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man x. 125 All the words of the mental language are said to be ‘non-referential’. |