单词 | involutionary |
释义 | involutionaryadj. Characterized by involution; retrograde. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > change to something else, transformation > change of direction, reversion > [adjective] relapsed1499 retrogradatea1550 revert1567 unwrought1726 involutionary1920 1920 Discovery Nov. 338/2 Our conceptions of psychical..‘regression’.., the backward or involutionary path of mental processes to more infantile conditions. 1942 Mind 51 146 The infinite series of causes to which Ethices I, xxviii [of Spinoza] refers is not a temporal regress to an impossible ‘first’ cause, but the involutionary sequence of eternal causes to a necessary First Cause. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adj.1920 |
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