单词 | discursion of the mind |
释义 | > as lemmasdiscursion of the mind (also judgement, etc.) 3. The process or faculty of moving from one concept to another in a coherent manner; reasoned argument or thought. Also more fully discursion of the mind (also judgement, etc.). Cf. discourse n. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > process of reasoning, ratiocination > [noun] reasonc1330 skillingc1374 discourse?c1400 discursec1443 argumentationa1492 ratiocination1532 ration1548 discursion1603 discursiveness1647 discoursiveness1661 movement1869 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 132 Turning the discursion of his judgement [Fr. ta curiosité] from things abroad, to those which are within himselfe . 1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature iv. 31 The succession of conceptions in the Minde..may be orderly..and this is discourse of the Minde. But because the word Discourse is commonly taken for the coherence and consequence of words, I will, to avoid equivocation, call it discursion. 1701 W. Anstruther Ess., Moral & Divine ii. 50 This supposes Piety and Vertue to have a Being, if so, then by an easy series of Discursion it must resolve unto a Deity. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biographia Literaria I. x. 160 Discourse here..does not mean what we now call discoursing; but the discursion of the mind. 1846 O. A. Brownson Wks. V. 506 An act of intuition or of discursion as well as of faith..involves it. 1949 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 7 311 The intuitive attitude: no more discursion as in science, for now we proceed by soundings and thunderbolts. 2010 K. Pritzl Truth i. 24 Discursion is not just involved in the formation of propositions but effects certain types of pre-predicative intellection. < as lemmas |
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