heteropathicadj.
/hɛtərə(ʊ)ˈpaθɪk/ 1. Medicine. = allopathic adj.
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1830 Edinb. Rev. 50 513 First stands the homöopathic..Then the allopathic or heteropathic..the..method which hopes to cure disease by exciting some dissimilar affection.
2. Of different operation; differing in their effect.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > [adjective] > differing in effect (of operation in logic)
heteropathic1843
1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. iii. vi. 403 Though there be laws which, like those of chemistry and physiology, owe their existence to a breach of the principle of the Composition of Causes, it does not follow that those peculiar, or, as they might be termed, heteropathic laws, are not capable of composition with one another.
1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xxix. 252 It is distinguished by Mr. Mill from cases of the heterogeneous or as he says the heteropathic intermixture of effects.
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