释义 |
attuition Psychol.|ætjuːˈɪʃən| [f. L. ad (see ad-) + tuition after intuition.] A hypothetical apprehension higher in order than mere animal sensation and lower than human perception. Hence attuˈitional, aˈttuitive adjs. So attuent |æˈtjuːənt|, a. [L. tuēnt-, pres. pple. of tuēri to look at], that has the function of, or is characterized by, attuition; aˈttuit, something of which one becomes conscious by attuition; attuite |æˈtjuːɪt| v. trans., to become conscious of (an object) by attuition; aˈttuitively adv., by attuition.
1884‘Scotus Novanticus’ Metaph. Nova et Vetusta 6 This word (Attuition) is here coined, in order to indicate that state of Consciousness which lies between Sensation-proper and Perception-proper. Ibid. 11, I may now define Attuition to be the reflex co-ordination of the elements or units of Sensation into an image or synopsis: it is a synthesis in and for the Conscious Subject. Ibid., The range and character of attuitional intelligence. Ibid. 29 The Will then has now affirmed the attuited totality in perception as a one totality. Ibid. 49 The Attuent consciousness at the moment of receiving the ‘impression’ of Extension, locates it as outside itself. Ibid. 143 An animal is attuitively conscious of the à posteriori categories, but it cannot categorize, because it cannot affirm. They are present to it as sense-attuits. 1888J. Martineau Study Relig. I. ii. i. 180 In the higher quadrupeds..a state is reached which may be called Attuition, marked by discrimination of particular objects from each other in space..but without corresponding discrimination of them from the attuent subject. Ibid. 184 How I should feel if I were..reduced to the ‘attuent’ condition, I find it impossible to judge. 1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's System iii. 157 Our consciousness of other things—i.e., our attuitive knowledge. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXX. 677/2 Supposing..that a man, or a dog, through association ‘attuites’ sequence and invariableness of succession. |