| 单词 | double-aspect theory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdouble-aspect theory double aspect n. [aspect n. 9] Chiefly metaphorical. The two forms under which a reality may appear; also attributive, as double-aspect theory (see sense Compounds 2c below), a philosophical theory, drawn from Spinoza, that mind and body (or matter) are the same thing viewed from two different aspects, subjective and objective; = identity-hypothesis. ΚΠ 1865 J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) 267 Conscientiousness..has a double aspect, outwards and inwards. 1870 S. H. Hodgson Theory of Pract. I. i. 3 It was maintained that..the whole world of phenomena..had a double aspect, subjective and objective, was at once a mode of consciousness and an existing thing. 1879 W. James in Mind 4 330 The ‘double-aspect’ school postulate the blank form of ‘One and the Same Fact’. 1960 Discovery Oct. 62/2 The much discussed ‘double-aspect’ hypothesis of mind and brain. double-aspect theory double-aspect theory n. (see Compounds 1). ΚΠ 1909 Hastings' Encycl. Relig. & Eth. II. 757/1 Ward..discusses..the Neo-Spinozism of the ‘double-aspect’ theory. 1931 G. F. Stout Mind & Matter 82 This is the so-called double-aspect theory; according to it mind and matter are different sides or aspects of the same thing. < as lemmas |
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